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

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Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:32:35 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver

On Wed, Feb 13 2013, 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.
> 
> The removal was originally posted[1] well over a month ago, and since
> then, there has been nobody objecting to the removal, aside from someone
> who had mistakenly confused it with a completely different driver (hd.c)
> 
> I've done a test merge followed by an allmodconfig/allyesconfig for
> x86-64 on the "for-next" branch of:
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git
> 
> to ensure that there was no Makefile/Kconfig fallout since the 3.8-rc2
> the original commit was created and tested on.
> 
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1935381/

Pulled, I'm pretty sure this hasn't been used in a decade at least. In
any case, it sits there nicely in history if someone wants to resurrect
it.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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