From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken ETRAX_IDE driver Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:35:20 +0200 Message-ID: <200804152335.21101.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20080413183629.GA21204@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <4BEA3FF3CAA35E408EA55C7BE2E61D050D3FB020@xmail3.se.axis.com> <20080414184213.GB6695@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:30303 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765601AbYDOVT5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:19:57 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l27so2140250fgb.17 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:19:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080414184213.GB6695@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Mikael Starvik , Jesper Nilsson , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" On Monday 14 April 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:50:19PM +0200, Mikael Starvik wrote: > > You can remove it for now and we will resubmit a new if/when we get around > > to fix it. > > Thanks for the confirmation. > > > /Mikael > > cu > Adrian > > BTW: If/When you'll get around to work on it, please consider using > libata instead. > > > <-- snip --> > > > ETRAX_IDE was marked as broken last year with the comment > "it doesn't even compile currently". > > Remove it since it won't get fixed in the near future. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk applied [ I ported the patch over IDE tree (it becomes honorable patch #250) so it deletes the most recent ide-cris version - even though the driver was marked as BROKEN I kept updating it and it is the best starting point if somebody would like to revive it in the future (or port it to libata). ]