From: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can entire drivers/acorn subdirectory be removed?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:17:23 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a781481a0707091347u2ab1380dkc08c1077de99ca82@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707091637090.10650@localhost.localdomain>
On 7/10/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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?
Would be best to just send out a patch getting rid of all that cruft.
If anybody (maintainer or otherwise) disagrees, we'll know then.
Satyam
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-09 20:47 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
2007-07-09 20:47 ` Satyam Sharma [this message]
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