Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 2014 23:52:35 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/4] x86, apic: Only use default_wait_for_init_deassert |
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/06/2014 02:31 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > > > > How do we usually do that? Do we add a big fat warning for anyone who is > > using it for a few releases or just yank support out entirely and see if > > we're surprised? > > > > We don't really *have* a good way of deprecation, this is the problem. > Usually it doesn't happen until we find out that a bug snuck its way in > and "X hasn't worked for N releases now, and noone has noticed." > Voyager was finally killed off because the maintainer of the port was > unwilling to keep up with the mainstream kernel flux. The i386 explicit > deprecation was definitely one of the more high-profile removals of a > largely working port, and was a (brief) Kernel Summit topic. > > I would love to see NumaQ, VisWS, Summit and ES7000 just nuked. In > fact, I'm thinking that unless someone steps up and explicitly claims > ownership of those platforms by adding their name to MAINTAINERS (or > reiterating them in the case of VisWS, which MAINTAINERS entry says "for > 2.6") we should just rip them all out. > > Anyone who wants to disagree?
Anyone who disagrees is automatically appointed to fill in the vacancy in that section of the maintainers file:
PALEONTOLOGICAL SYSTEMS M: vacant@paleontological.systems S: reanimation
Thanks,
tglx
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