linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] block: sx8: Invalid wait context in carm_queue

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Date:   Wed, 9 Mar 2022 15:11:43 +0800
From:   Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] block: sx8: Invalid wait context in carm_queue_rq()

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 2:30 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> I guess you don't actually have the hardware and just built it into the
> kernel?

Yes, I use the virtual machine instead of the real hardware.

> Because I've been pretty sure that this driver is pretty much dead,
> so maybe we need to go ahead and just remove it.

I found that there were a few active commits to this driver last year,
so I assumed it was still "alive".
Maybe it's time to clean up these unused drivers.

Thanks,
Zheyu Ma