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Message-ID: <YTXcPBph323n2WJ8@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 6 Sep 2021 10:15:40 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] s390/block/xpram: add error handling support for
 add_disk()

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:06:15PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Hmm, this is a more or less dead device driver, and I'm wondering if
> we shouldn't remove it instead. But anyway, your patch is not correct:

I'm all for removing it.  I think we need to do a little more spring
cleaning on unmaintained and likely to be unused block drivers.