Re: The great ST40 purge of 2007

[Stuart M. <stu...@st...>]

Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:10:12PM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:51:22AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:46:52PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
>>>> sh: remove support for sh73180 and solution engine 73180
>>>>
>>>> This patch removes old dead code:
>>>> - kill off sh73180 cpu support
>>>> - get rid of broken solution engine 73180 board support
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <da...@ig...>
>>> Looks fine, thanks.
>>>
>> Since we're in the purging mood, perhaps it's also worth looking at some
>> others:
>>
> I've also ripped out the left over ST40 cruft, which has been broken
> in-tree the majority of the time since its last update, over 3 years ago
> (at present it randomly breaks randconfigs, which is simply not good
> form). I'll push the ST40 purge for 2.6.24-rc3, it's basically pretty
> uninteresting:
> 
>  arch/sh/drivers/pci/Makefile   |    1
>  arch/sh/drivers/pci/pci-st40.c |  488 ----------------------------------------- arch/sh/drivers/pci/pci-st40.h |  136 -----------
>  arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/probe.c |    8
>  arch/sh/kernel/setup.c         |    1
>  arch/sh/mm/Kconfig             |   21 -
>  drivers/serial/sh-sci.h        |   18 -
>  include/asm-sh/processor.h     |    2
>  8 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 672 deletions(-)
> 
> ST can resurrect the ST40 support for 2.6.25 if they feel like it, or
> simply continue to keep it out-of-tree.

As of last week I finally got all our stuff working on a 2.6.23 kernel. It still
needs a bit of tidying, but I was planning to start submitting it over the
next few weeks.

But what was in the git tree was so out of date, removing it is no great loss!

Stuart