linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi

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Date:	Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:34:29 -0800
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful
>> of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND
>> driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for
>> storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash.
>>
>> So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by
>> anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes
>> every now and then.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
>> ---
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c |  238 ----------------------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c
>
> If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in
> drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in
> drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we?

D'oh. Yes, of course. v2 coming.


-Olof
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