From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935306AbWKZJ6i (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:58:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935307AbWKZJ6h (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:58:37 -0500 Received: from mgw-ext12.nokia.com ([131.228.20.171]:44418 "EHLO mgw-ext12.nokia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935306AbWKZJ6h convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:58:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken MTD_PCMCIA driver From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , Simon Evans , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <20061125191521.GD3702@stusta.de> References: <20061125191521.GD3702@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:40:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1164534013.576.24.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 (2.8.1.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Nov 2006 09:40:38.0832 (UTC) FILETIME=[EE60E300:01C7113E] X-eXpurgate-Category: 1/0 X-eXpurgate-ID: 149371::061126114123-1F261BB0-05057BA6/0-0/0-1 X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 20:15 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The MTD_PCMCIA driver has: > - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and > - is still marked as BROKEN. > > Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be > unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. > > But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still > present in the older kernel releases. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk I've committed both patches to my git trees so David won't miss them. http://git.infradead.org/?p=users/dedekind/dedekind-mtd-2.6.git;a=summary -- Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)