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SubjectRe: [patch] kill off PC9800
Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:21:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > PC9800 sub-arch is incomplete, hackish (at least in IDE), maintainers
>>> > don't reply to emails and haven't touched it in awhile.
>>>
>>> And the hardware is obsolete, isn't it? Does anyone know when they were
>>> last manufactured, and how popular they are?
>>>
>>>Hey, just being obsolete is no grounds for eliminating a
>>>subarchitecture...
>>
>>Well it's a question of whether we're likely to see increasing demand for
>>it in the future. If so then it would be prudent to put some effort into
>>fixing it up rather than removing it.
>>
>>Seems that's not the case. I don't see a huge rush on this but if after
>>this discussion nobody steps up to take care of the code over the next few
>>weeks, it's best to remove it.
>
>
> Perhaps a nicer way to do this is to add a compile warning or error:
>
> #warning "arch/i386/mach-pc9800 unmaintained since xx/xx/xx, nominated
> for removal xx/xx/xx if unclaimed"
>
> ..where the second date is, say, 3+ months after the warning goes in.
> Then people can nominate stuff for removal with one liners and users
> will get ample opportunity to complain.
>

You're missing the point that this code doesn't compile *at all*.
Nobody would ever see the warning.

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Brian Gerst
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