From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754284Ab3L0JLE (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Dec 2013 04:11:04 -0500 Received: from cpsmtpb-ews09.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.39.14]:60717 "EHLO cpsmtpb-ews09.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754104Ab3L0JLA (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Dec 2013 04:11:00 -0500 Message-ID: <1388135456.5072.3.camel@x220> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver From: Paul Bolle To: Olof Johansson Cc: David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:10:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1388123524-9000-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> References: <1388123524-9000-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.3 (3.10.3-1.fc20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Dec 2013 09:10:56.0662 (UTC) FILETIME=[8D305360:01CF02E3] X-RcptDomain: vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: > The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful > of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND > driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for > storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash. > > So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by > anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes > every now and then. > > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson > --- > drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c | 238 ---------------------------------------- > 1 file changed, 238 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we? Paul Bolle