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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707091637090.10650@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:38:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can entire drivers/acorn subdirectory be removed?

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

> * Robert P. J. Day (rpjday@...dspring.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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