From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752306Ab2GYTmV (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:42:21 -0400 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:33690 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750889Ab2GYTmU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:42:20 -0400 Message-ID: <50104C0A.8050607@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:42:02 -0400 From: Paul Gortmaker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Gardner CC: , Ben Hutchings , James Bottomley , Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Remove obsolete Myricom firmware References: <1343237441-102862-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1343237441-102862-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [128.224.146.65] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12-07-25 01:30 PM, Tim Gardner wrote: > The Myricom GB driver firmware is no longer in use. Furthermore, > CONFIG_MYRI_SBUS is no longer defined. If there is going to be more of these, it is kind of nice to have in the commit header a reference to the commit when the original user(s) went away. In this case, it was: --- commit 1b9c4134c126aa8ae00a57672d4a4eaecc436b54 Author: Jon Mason Date: Mon Jun 20 12:51:22 2011 -0700 myri_sbus: remove driver Remove the myri_sbus driver. Why? * There is no possibility of ethernet mode on this adapter, so it's Myrinet only. * It won't inter-op with modern versions of Myrinet, and thus can only work with legacy adapters. * There are no in-kernel Linux drivers for the PCI version of this adapter, so it only can work on ~15 year old Sun hardware. It's long in the tooth, let's take it to the knackers. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason Signed-off-by: David S. Miller ---- Thanks, Paul. > > Cc: Paul Gortmaker > Cc: Ben Hutchings > Cc: James Bottomley > Cc: Dan Williams > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner