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[Jani Monoses <jani@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Jani Monoses <jani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> device/ti/panda seems not to be needed by our official devices, this
>> patch removes it from the default manifest
>
>
> What do we benefit from removing it?
>
> Seems to me like it doesn't impact anything by being there, but rather
> allows users to build for that device should they choose to.

The impact while small is the extra repo fetched even when not needed
so some network and disk overhead and
the possible confusion while browsing the source tree.
AIUI there was a push to remove git repos that are not used by default
and this patch came in response to favorable comments specifically
about removing panda.

cheers
Jani