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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] Drop support for Renesys H8/300 architecture
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    From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:55:50 -0700

    > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:40:35AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
    >> H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has
    >> not compiled for ages, and recent versions of gcc for it are broken.
    >> It is time to drop support for it.
    >>
    >> Yes, I understand it is not that simple to drop an architecture,
    >> and it may need some discussion, but someone has to put a stake
    >> into the ground. Keeping a virtually dead architecture on life support
    >> takes resources which are better spent elsewhere.
    >
    > If this doesn't build, and no one is using it anymore, I agree, it
    > should be removed. If someone wants to revive it, 'git revert' works
    > just fine.
    >
    > You can put my:
    >
    > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    >
    > on these patches, unless someone steps up to be the active maintainer of
    > the arch and gets it building/working again.

    I completely agree with Greg, and for the IDE and networking bits:

    Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


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