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Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the obsolete hd driver
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:51:20 -0600
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On 04/05/2017 07:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the
> stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere
> in the kernel these days.
> 
> It's also been marked broken forever.

Applied for 4.12, who'd trust their data to a driver written by Linus
anyway. Good riddance.

-- 
Jens Axboe