On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 04:20:08PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > > > On 20/06/2019 16:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > > > this goes back to the discussion at last years kernel summit, where > > we had the discussion on removing code never used by any in-kernel > > user an no prospects of one. The IBM folks are unfortunately still > > dragging their feet on the powerpc side. Can we revise this discussion? > > > > The use case here is a IBM specific bus for which they only have an > > out of tree driver that their partner doesn't want to submit for mainline, > > but keep insisting on keeping the code around (which is also built > > uncondŃ–tionally for the platform). > > > I personally keep insisting on correct commit logs, i.e. not calling > working code dead and providing actual reasons for the change. Thanks,
If that is the only thing you are complaining about I can clarify it a little of course. But it didn't sound like that was the actual problem.