From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759542AbXGIUrc (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:47:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755361AbXGIUrZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:47:25 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.225]:1969 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755299AbXGIUrY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:47:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qVlvKXcVLYX56U88Su2wjr5bge3uDhaLMLVjl5MCi+Xx+nvV1uasSocatw/0F5Ok/nG5lo/n9Y5gsZIRJOsgIu6LfWUIwAN8hvryYksnSeor1RxK9FFQKLx/wHeQ/SuQaiw0R+iE4/pyaVIgbRRrlObqFTv+FdWjqISjKdXFCXo= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:17:23 +0530 From: "Satyam Sharma" To: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: can entire drivers/acorn subdirectory be removed? Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070706183244.GB25207@gallifrey> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/10/07, Robert P. J. Day 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