linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: Remove obsolete Myricom firmware

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Message-ID: <50104C0A.8050607@windriver.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:42:02 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Remove obsolete Myricom firmware

On 12-07-25 01:30 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> The Myricom GB driver firmware is no longer in use. Furthermore,
> CONFIG_MYRI_SBUS is no longer defined.

If there is going to be more of these, it is kind of nice to
have in the commit header a reference to the commit when the
original user(s) went away.

In this case, it was:

---
commit 1b9c4134c126aa8ae00a57672d4a4eaecc436b54
Author: Jon Mason <mason@...i.com>
Date:   Mon Jun 20 12:51:22 2011 -0700

    myri_sbus: remove driver
    
    Remove the myri_sbus driver. Why?
    * There is no possibility of ethernet mode on this adapter, so it's
      Myrinet only.
    * It won't inter-op with modern versions of Myrinet, and thus can only
      work with legacy adapters.
    * There are no in-kernel Linux drivers for the PCI version of this
      adapter, so it only can work on ~15 year old Sun hardware.
    
    It's long in the tooth, let's take it to the knackers.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@...i.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
----

Thanks,
Paul.

> 
> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
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