From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, axboe@fb.com, donari75@gmail.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the mg_disk driver
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:16:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb43550a-3608-47b2-638d-c17fc31d8024@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170412055837.GA20204@lst.de>
On 04/12/2017 07:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Any comments? Getting rid of this driver which was never wired up
> at all would help with some of the pending block work..
>
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:28:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> This drivers was added in 2008, but as far as a I can tell we never had a
>> single platform that actually registered resources for the platform driver.
>>
>> It's also been unmaintained for a long time and apparently has a ATA mode
>> that can be driven using the IDE/libata subsystem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>> ---
>> Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt | 84 ---
>> drivers/block/Kconfig | 17 -
>> drivers/block/Makefile | 1 -
>> drivers/block/mg_disk.c | 1110 -------------------------------------
>> include/linux/mg_disk.h | 45 --
>> 5 files changed, 1257 deletions(-)
>> delete mode 100644 Documentation/blockdev/mflash.txt
>> delete mode 100644 drivers/block/mg_disk.c
>> delete mode 100644 include/linux/mg_disk.h
>>
Go.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-12 6:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-06 11:28 [PATCH] remove the mg_disk driver Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-12 5:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-12 6:16 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2017-04-14 20:01 ` Jens Axboe
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