On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.bell...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > (adding Hans-Christian) > > On 21/02/2017 at 13:02:21 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> Abusing platform data with pointers is also not welcome. >> >> > (in this case, avr32). >> >> It's dead de facto. >> >> When last time did you compile kernel for it? What was the version of kernel? >> Did it get successfully? >> > > v4.10-rc3 was building successfully but had some issues in the network > code.
Newer kernel doesn't link... >> When are we going to remove avr32 support from kernel completely? > Ask that to the avr32 maintainers. It still builds and is still booted > by some people. And that actually seems to be you as you reported a bug > we introduced in 4.3. I don't think we had any other report after that. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9505727/ After that I gave up on it. Next time I will escalate directly to Linus. It's a complete necrophilia. I spent already enough time to look at that code. It brings now more burden than supports someone somewhere. > It can be frustrating at times to handle that platform but if it is > working for someone, I don't see why we would remove it. How it's working if it's not linked? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
