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On 09/19/12 04:32, Stefan Roese wrote:
Hi Marek,
On 09/19/2012 01:28 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
Again, NS16550 driver here. This code shouldn't be necessary. Also this board looks quite unmaintained as well. Perhaps its time to remove it from mainline? Not sure whom to ask, since no maintainer is listed.
Exactly :-(
Shall we not simply remove all boards that obviously miss maintainer?
I'm all for it. I'm currently working on a patch to remove support for the IOP480 platforms completely (ppc40x derivate). Some other boards might be good candidates as well...
Since Marek has poked me about this in a few other contexts as well, let me state my position for the moment. Whatever boards a custodian is the de facto maintainer for and they don't believe makes sense to continue carrying forward in mainline, they can and should submit patches to remove. Conversely, if the custodian says "I'm fine carrying these platforms", that's what they can and should do.
And I have a few other things to say too, so I'll save that for a bit later once I'm done drafting and considering.
- -- Tom