On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:26 PM Alexey Charkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 22:45, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alexey,
>>
>> I didn't have you in the initial Cc list for my email since you were never
>> listed as a maintainer for arch/arm/mach-vt8500, but I see that there
>> was a git tree with commits from you as of 2017 at
>> https://github.com/linux-wmt.
>>
>> Do you know if there are any remaining users of this code, or should
>> we just remove it. I tried reaching out to Tony Prisk, but his last
>> known email address bounces.
>
>
> Hi Arnd!
>
> Thanks a lot for reaching out! Indeed, I haven’t seen your original message, so it’s great that you’ve managed to track me down :)
>
> Tony has been MIA for quite a while already (pretty much ever since he did the DT conversion of my original VT8500 code and added the pinctrl and clk drivers for this platform).
>
> I still maintain the Google group for Linux on these devices though, and there is sporadic interest in running upstream Linux on them. Last time there was a guy whom I helped track down a regression due to the removal of skeleton.dtsi which seemingly broke appended-dtb boot on our machines. That was last July:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel/20201008005344.GA1134%40arch-xps.localdomain
>
> So in a nutshell, there are users of this port, albeit just a few. It would be great if we could let it stick around for now, unless it’s really getting in the way of something!

Ok, thanks for the quick reply. We'll just leave it untouched then, but it
would be good to update the MAINTAINERS file to no longer list
Tony, but either list you or mark it orphaned instead.

Could you send a patch to:[email protected] cc:[email protected]
with such an update for me to apply?