Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 02/11] unmodified_drivers: remove ia64 parts of the code

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 12, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >>> On 06.03.14 at 17:13, Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../linux-2.6/compat-include/xen/platform-compat.h |  4 ---
> >  unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/mkbuildtree           | 16 +---------
> >  unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/overrides.mk          |  3 --
> >  unmodified_drivers/linux-2.6/platform-pci/Kbuild   |  4 ---
> >  .../linux-2.6/platform-pci/panic-handler.c         | 14 ---------
> >  .../linux-2.6/platform-pci/platform-pci.c          | 23 --------------
> >  .../linux-2.6/platform-pci/xen_support.c           | 36 
> > ----------------------
> >  7 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 99 deletions(-)
> 
> Why? In fact I think it was a mistake too to remove the ia64 bits
> from the public headers - there's nothing wrong with someone
> still wanting to build ia64 PV drivers against an old Linux tree (e.g.
> linux-2.6.18-xen.hg itself, where I intentionally avoided mirroring
> that public header cleanup), and the implementation going away
> is unrelated to the interface definitions remaining the same.

Wouldnt they pick 4.3 or older for that task, given that there are no
relevant changes? But I'm fine with dropping that patch.

Olaf

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