quoted

Is it time yet for:

$ git rm -r arch/ia64

Can I take that as an ack on [0]? The EFI subsystem has evolved
substantially over the years, and there is really no way to do any
IA64 testing beyond build testing, so from that perspective, dropping
it entirely would be welcomed.

Thanks,
Ard.



[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?h=remove-ia64

Yes. EFI isn't the only issue. A bunch of folks[1] have spent time fixing ia64
for (in most cases) some tree-wide patches that they needed. Their time might
have been more productively spent fixing things that actually matter in modern times.

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

-Tony

[1] git log --no-merges --since=2year -- arch/ia64 | grep Author: | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
     19 Author: Masahiro Yamada [off-list ref]
     11 Author: Sergei Trofimovich [off-list ref]
      9 Author: Eric W. Biederman [off-list ref]
      8 Author: Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref]
      6 Author: Randy Dunlap [off-list ref]
      6 Author: Kefeng Wang [off-list ref]
      6 Author: Anshuman Khandual [off-list ref]
      5 Author: Masami Hiramatsu [off-list ref]
      5 Author: Al Viro [off-list ref]
      4 Author: Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref]
      4 Author: Mike Rapoport [off-list ref]
      4 Author: David Hildenbrand [off-list ref]
      4 Author: Christophe Leroy [off-list ref]
      3 Author: Yury Norov [off-list ref]
      3 Author: Michal Hocko [off-list ref]
      3 Author: Geert Uytterhoeven [off-list ref]
      3 Author: Bhaskar Chowdhury [off-list ref]
      3 Author: Baoquan He [off-list ref]
      3 Author: Ard Biesheuvel [off-list ref]
      3 Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Yang Guang [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Will Deacon [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Viresh Kumar [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Valentin Schneider [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Stafford Horne [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Richard Guy Briggs [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Peter Xu [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Peter Collingbourne [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Mark Rutland [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Lukas Bulwahn [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Julia Lawall [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Jens Axboe [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Jason Wang [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Jan Kara [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Bjorn Helgaas [off-list ref]
      2 Author: Alexander Lobakin [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Zi Yan [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Zhang Yunkai [off-list ref]
      1 Author: ye xingchen [off-list ref]
      1 Author: xu xin [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Wolfram Sang [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Weizhao Ouyang [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Suren Baghdasaryan [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Souptick Joarder (HPE) [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Sergey Shtylyov [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Sergei Trofimovich [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Sascha Hauer [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Samuel Holland [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Qi Zheng [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Peng Liu [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Naveen N. Rao [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Muchun Song [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Mikulas Patocka [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Mike Kravetz [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Mickaël Salaün [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Martin Oliveira [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Luc Van Oostenryck [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Kees Cook [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Jason A. Donenfeld [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Ilpo Järvinen [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Haowen Bai [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Gustavo A. R. Silva [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Gaosheng Cui [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Dmitry Osipenko [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Dawei Li [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Chuck Lever [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Christian Brauner [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Chris Down [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Chen Li [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Catalin Marinas [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Benjamin Stürz [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Ben Dooks [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Baolin Wang [off-list ref]
      1 Author: Andy Shevchenko [off-list ref]
      1 Author: André Almeida [off-list ref]