On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:41:50PM +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote:

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:03:22 Russell King - ARM Linux [off-list ref] wrote:

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What this means is that any platform in the machine database which has not
been submitted to mainline for 12 months since it was registered will be
automatically dropped from the file, and the platform maintainer will need
to either talk to me to get it reinstated before submission, or update the
entry in some way to 'freshen' it.

So what happens to the number that was allocated for a platform that
got dropped?  Will it be recycled for another platform or is it safe
to use it in code that is not intended to go mainline (to avoid cluttering
mainline with code that doesn't need to be mainline)?

You've completely misunderstood what I said.  Nothing has been deleted
from the database.  The file downloadable off the website continues to
give the full set of entries.

All that's happened is some filtering on the version I include in the
mainline kernel to make it saner.  There's no point including 2000
lines (which expand to about 700K of generated file) which aren't used
in the mainline kernel.