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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can entire drivers/acorn subdirectory be removed?
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:38:40 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707091637090.10650@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706183244.GB25207@gallifrey>

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:

> * Robert P. J. Day (rpjday@mindspring.com) wrote:
>
> >   and if that happens, then the config variables defined in
> > drivers/acorn/block/Kconfig:
> >
> >   config BLK_DEV_FD1772
> >   config BLK_DEV_MFM
> >   config BLK_DEV_MFM_AUTODETECT
> >
> > would also vanish, which suggests that any references to *them* could
> > also be deleted:
>
> Ah those are blasts from the past; I've got to wonder how many MFM
> drives that still work are out there.

the question remains -- is there any value to keeping the acorn stuff
given that the Kconfig variables to select that code aren't defined
anywhere?

rday
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-06 10:38 can entire drivers/acorn subdirectory be removed? Robert P. J. Day
2007-07-06 18:32 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-07-09 20:38   ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2007-07-09 20:47     ` Satyam Sharma

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