linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken i82443bxgx

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Message-ID: <20080831180731.GA19695@juhlenko-desk.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com>
Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:07:31 -0700
From:	Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@...mai.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Douglas Thompson <dougthompson@...ssion.com>,
	Tim Small <tim@...tersideup.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	bluesmoke-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken i82443bxgx_edac driver

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 19:10:11 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The i82443bxgx_edac driver was added more than one year ago, but after 
> only 3 seconds in Linus' tree it got a dependency on BROKEN with Andrew 
> stating:
> 
>     It will claim the PCI devices from under intel_agp.ko's feet.
>     Greg is brewing some fix for that.
> 
> Since noone seems to care enough about this driver to get it working we 
> can as well remove it.

This driver does work as long as it's not used concurrently with
intel-agp, and I know of at least one user of it (who has been locally
diking out the dependency on BROKEN).
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