linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver

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Message-Id: <201302132154.38477.linux@rainbow-software.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:54:37 +0100
From:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver

On Wednesday 13 February 2013 21:04:32 Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 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.

It was fixed just yesterday by Linus Walleij: 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/12/541

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Ondrej Zary
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