From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:32:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130214153235.GR21269@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130213200432.GA11018@windriver.com>
On Wed, Feb 13 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Jens,
>
> Please pull the following to get the removal of the original IBM PC-XT
> hard disk driver from the block layer (drivers/block/xd.c).
>
> As near as I can tell, it hasn't seen a run time fix in over a dozen
> years, and with drive sizes of 10-20MB, and performance of about 128kB/s
> maximum, it is no surprise that it has been completely unused for well
> over a decade.
>
> The removal was originally posted[1] well over a month ago, and since
> then, there has been nobody objecting to the removal, aside from someone
> who had mistakenly confused it with a completely different driver (hd.c)
>
> I've done a test merge followed by an allmodconfig/allyesconfig for
> x86-64 on the "for-next" branch of:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git
>
> to ensure that there was no Makefile/Kconfig fallout since the 3.8-rc2
> the original commit was created and tested on.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1935381/
Pulled, I'm pretty sure this hasn't been used in a decade at least. In
any case, it sits there nicely in history if someone wants to resurrect
it.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-14 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-13 20:04 [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver Paul Gortmaker
2013-02-13 20:54 ` Ondrej Zary
2013-02-13 22:22 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-02-14 9:06 ` Linus Walleij
2013-02-14 15:32 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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