linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove the obsolete hd driver

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Message-ID: <90ab54f6-4a1d-d3e3-fe53-b06454bb797f@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:51:20 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the obsolete hd driver

On 04/05/2017 07:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the
> stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere
> in the kernel these days.
> 
> It's also been marked broken forever.

Applied for 4.12, who'd trust their data to a driver written by Linus
anyway. Good riddance.

-- 
Jens Axboe