On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 05:27:23PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > >> As far as we have been able to establish, the only people that use > >> this arch and code are people that would hate to see it go, but don't > >> actually use it for anything other than checking whether it still > >> boots, and don't have the skills or bandwidth to step up and maintain > >> it upstream. > > > > Great, then let's drop it today, there is no need to wait until the end > > of the year as nothing is going to change then. > > I think this also puts the existing stable and LTS trees in some interesting > state. After arch/ia64 is removed, there may be some tree-wide change > that gets backported to stable & LTS. That may break arch/ia64 in those > trees (e.g. because arguments to some common function are changed). > > Maybe just deal with that if it happens ... and if anyone notices ... are > there > automated builds and boot test for ia64 in those trees?
Guenter builds for that, but really, if the tree breaks and no one notices, is it really broken? :) We handle this all the time in other types of removals (drivers, subsystems, etc.) I doubt this tiny amount of arch code will matter much in the long run. thanks, greg k-h
