From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:10:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1388135456.5072.3.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1388123524-9000-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net>
On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful
> of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND
> driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for
> storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash.
>
> So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by
> anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes
> every now and then.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c | 238 ----------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c
If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in
drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in
drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we?
Paul Bolle
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:10:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1388135456.5072.3.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1388123524-9000-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net>
On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful
> of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND
> driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for
> storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash.
>
> So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by
> anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes
> every now and then.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c | 238 ----------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c
If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in
drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in
drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we?
Paul Bolle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-27 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-27 5:52 [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver Olof Johansson
2013-12-27 5:52 ` Olof Johansson
2013-12-27 9:10 ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2013-12-27 9:10 ` Paul Bolle
2013-12-27 21:34 ` Olof Johansson
2013-12-27 21:34 ` Olof Johansson
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