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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken ETRAX_IDE driver
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:35:20 +0200
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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 <bunk@kernel.org>

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). ]