Re: [patch 1/4] x86, apic: Only use default_wait_for_init_deassert

From: David Rientjes
Date: Thu Feb 06 2014 - 17:32:06 EST


On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > es7000_wait_for_init_deassert() is functionally equivalent to
> > default_wait_for_init_deassert(), so remove the duplicate code and use
> > only a single function.
>
> It would surprise me if anyone uses the es7000 anymore -- it may be
> reasonable to just deprecate the complete port.
>

How do we usually do that? Do we add a big fat warning for anyone who is
using it for a few releases or just yank support out entirely and see if
we're surprised?
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