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

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Date:	Fri, 27 Dec 2013 10:10:56 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver

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?


Paul Bolle

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