Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] tools: remove more of ia64 support

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 22:09 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Remove a few more occurrences of ia64 from the sources.

Thanks. As you'll have seen from George's development updates we are now
well into code freeze and close to an rc0 for 4.4.

So every patch needs to come with some sort of justification for why it
should be accepted for 4.4 (or have an explicit note indicating that it
is 4.5 material).

In this case although removing code seems harmless enough it does risk
causing build failures, or in the case of the python stuff, runtime
exceptions. I don't think the benefits outweigh the risks for 4.4.
George?

We also have a policy these days of CCing the folks listed in
MAINTAINERS. You might find ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl useful.

BTW, George while I have you attention -- do you have a standard link
which I can direct people to regarding the freeze exception
considerations (the "#1 an awesome releases stuff") and the methodology
which I've seen you deploy in various threads. Or if not a standard link
a particular instance which is especially illustrative?

Ian.

> 
> Olaf Hering (5):
>   docs: remove ia64 from tmem-internals.html
>   stubdom: remove ia64 from stubdom
>   libxc: remove ia64 from xg_private.h
>   pygrub: remote ia64 from pygrub
>   xend: remove ia64 from xend sources
> 
>  docs/misc/tmem-internals.html          |  7 -----
>  stubdom/Makefile                       |  3 --
>  stubdom/newlib.patch                   | 22 -------------
>  tools/libxc/xg_private.h               |  4 ---
>  tools/pygrub/src/pygrub                | 35 +++++++--------------
>  tools/python/xen/xend/XendNode.py      | 10 ------
>  tools/python/xen/xend/arch.py          |  1 -
>  tools/python/xen/xend/image.py         | 56 
> ----------------------------------
>  tools/python/xen/xend/server/pciif.py  |  2 +-
>  tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestLib/arch.py    | 14 ++-------
>  tools/xm-test/lib/XmTestReport/arch.py |  4 ---
>  11 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
> 
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