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From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:04:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130213200432.GA11018@windriver.com> (raw)

Jens,

Please pull the following to get the removal of the original IBM PC-XT
hard disk driver from the block layer (drivers/block/xd.c).

As near as I can tell, it hasn't seen a run time fix in over a dozen
years, and with drive sizes of 10-20MB, and performance of about 128kB/s
maximum, it is no surprise that it has been completely unused for well
over a decade.

The removal was originally posted[1] well over a month ago, and since
then, there has been nobody objecting to the removal, aside from someone
who had mistakenly confused it with a completely different driver (hd.c)

I've done a test merge followed by an allmodconfig/allyesconfig for
x86-64 on the "for-next" branch of:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git

to ensure that there was no Makefile/Kconfig fallout since the 3.8-rc2
the original commit was created and tested on.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1935381/

Thanks,
Paul.

---

The following changes since commit d1c3ed669a2d452cacfb48c2d171a1f364dae2ed:

  Linux 3.8-rc2 (2013-01-02 18:13:21 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git delete-xt-disk

for you to fetch changes up to d1a6f4f19728d6e90480e53601a90fc9f6a348ad:

  block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware (2013-01-04 20:17:40 -0500)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Gortmaker (1):
      block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware

 drivers/block/Kconfig  |   13 -
 drivers/block/Makefile |    1 -
 drivers/block/xd.c     | 1123 ------------------------------------------------
 drivers/block/xd.h     |  134 ------
 4 files changed, 1271 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 drivers/block/xd.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/block/xd.h

             reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13 20:04 Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2013-02-13 20:54 ` [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver Ondrej Zary
2013-02-13 22:22   ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-02-14  9:06     ` Linus Walleij
2013-02-14 15:32 ` Jens Axboe

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