[Fwd: ReadMeNow: Clearing out the SA1100 cruft]

Just thought that may interest one or the other of you, since the SIMpad
is among the to-be-removed things ( - if nothing happens).

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> Von: Russell King - ARM Linux <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: ReadMeNow: Clearing out the SA1100 cruft
> Datum: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:27:56 +0000
> Hi,
> 
> Since many SA1100 machine types no longer build, I've taken the liberty
> of starting to eliminate those which don't.
> 
> Any machine type which is not actively maintained is an unnecessary and
> unfair burden on the rest of the community - when a global change occurs,
> all machine types will be updated.  If no one is looking after a machine
> type, the effort to apply the change to that machine type is wasted.
> 
> Therefore, I'm about to remove about 236K of unmaintained SA1100 machine
> support code from the kernel.
> 
> See http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/misc/sa1100-cleanup.diff for the
> initial efforts.
> 
> If there's a machine type in there which you don't want removed, please
> submit a patch to the patch system to add a working version back into
> the kernel *WITH* a MAINTAINERS entry, and detailing your commitment
> to maintain the machine type.
> 
> In future, I'd like to see any machine type which is merged to contain
> a statement of commitment to maintain it, a MAINTAINERS entry, _and_
> a commitment from the maintainer to send a notification to this mailing
> list when a platform is no longer maintained by themselves.  Failure to
> satisfy this shall be used as an excuse not to commit peoples machine
> support patches.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Regards,

Mickey.
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