Re: [PATCH] edac: i82443bxgx: remove driver that has been marked broken since 2007

Borislav Petkov
2026-01-29T10:49:01Z

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 12:29:27AM -0800, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> The history of this driver is pretty amusing. It was marked broken in
> 2007 in commit 28f96eeafc89 ("drivers/edac-new-i82443bxgz-mc-driver:
> mark as broken"). It was then fixed in 2008 in commit 53a2fe5804e8
> ("edac: make i82443bxgx_edac coexist with intel_agp"), but the
> dependency on BROKEN was never removed. Given that this was never fixed
> in the last ~18 years, it is obvious there is no demand for this
> driver. Remove it and move the former maintainer to the CREDITS file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
> ---
> CREDITS | 4 +
> MAINTAINERS | 6 -
> drivers/edac/Kconfig | 8 -
> drivers/edac/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/edac/i82443bxgx_edac.c | 462 ---------------------------------
> 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 477 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/edac/i82443bxgx_edac.c

I couldn't care less about supporting a chipset in Pentium II or III.

Tony?

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Boris.