On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Arnd, > > https://lwn.net/Articles/769468/ wrote: > > For example, the m68k architecture uses a number of internal APIs > > that no other architecture needs at this point; removing that > > architecture would enable removing the APIs as well > > and > > > Ted Ts'o suggested that an ultimatum could be made: either the m68k > > architecture stops using the old, deprecated timer API (for example) > > within one year or it is removed from the kernel. > > Which APIs are these exactly? >
Tree-wide replacement of deprecated API's is one thing. Gunning for one particular architecture is a different matter. Of course, if that architecture is known to be fatally flawed (hi spectre) that's quite okay. -- > > This kind of approach has worked well in the Debian community > > Right, Debian stopped supporting m68k a long time ago ;-) > > Thanks! > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- > ge...@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like > that. > -- Linus Torvalds >