Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2018 14:28:16 +0100 | From | James Hogan <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] arch: remove obsolete architecture ports |
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 10:38:41AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Also, now that the other architectures are gone, a lot of changes can > be done more easily that will be incompatible with a pure revert, so > the more time passes, the harder it will get to do that.
Yes, and an out-of-tree arch port (as effectively these arches now are) requires constant maintenance (often subtle runtime breakage) to keep up to date with each new kernel release, which happens mostly automatically from arch maintainer POV while they're merged.
Even without changes intentionally taking advantage of not having to care about these arches, it'll be only a few cycles at the most before a plain revert won't "just work".
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