linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: remove obsolete JEDEC mapping drivers

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Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2013 13:03:33 -0700
From:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: remove obsolete JEDEC mapping drivers

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:40 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
>> JEDEC device support was removed in v2.6.22. (It had been marked as
>> BROKEN (indirectly) since at least v2.6.12.)
>>
>> When it was removed the two JEDEC mapping drivers that depended on it
>> should have been removed too. Do so now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
>> ---
>> 0) Untested.
>>
>> 1) These two [seem] to have been missed in Artem's recent cleaning up
>> effort. Or is a comparable patch queued somewhere?

I don't believe there is any patch queued up. (The best source for
queued MTD patches is in l2-mtd.git, by the way. See:
http://git.infradead.org/)

> Did anyone had a chance to look at this patch? Or has this code already
> been removed?

Artem has been mostly off the radar for a while, and he's mostly been
responsible for picking up patches like this. But FWIW:

Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>

>>  drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig        |  18 ---
>>  drivers/mtd/maps/Makefile       |   2 -
>>  drivers/mtd/maps/octagon-5066.c | 246 ----------------------------------------
>>  drivers/mtd/maps/vmax301.c      | 196 --------------------------------
>>  4 files changed, 462 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/maps/octagon-5066.c
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/maps/vmax301.c

Brian
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