From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934703Ab3BNPd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:33:56 -0500 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:45652 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934562Ab3BNPdz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:33:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:32:35 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver Message-ID: <20130214153235.GR21269@kernel.dk> References: <20130213200432.GA11018@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130213200432.GA11018@windriver.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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