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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:00:01 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, JBottomley@...allels.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. * Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote: > Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines > that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB > of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that > even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest > in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from > the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series. > > This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core > kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in > carrying this any further into the future. > > One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up > stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in > the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c). Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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