Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:04:32 -0500 | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver |
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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/
Thanks, Paul.
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The following changes since commit d1c3ed669a2d452cacfb48c2d171a1f364dae2ed:
Linux 3.8-rc2 (2013-01-02 18:13:21 -0800)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git delete-xt-disk
for you to fetch changes up to d1a6f4f19728d6e90480e53601a90fc9f6a348ad:
block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware (2013-01-04 20:17:40 -0500)
---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Gortmaker (1): block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware
drivers/block/Kconfig | 13 - drivers/block/Makefile | 1 - drivers/block/xd.c | 1123 ------------------------------------------------ drivers/block/xd.h | 134 ------ 4 files changed, 1271 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/block/xd.c delete mode 100644 drivers/block/xd.h
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