linux-kernel - Re: (subset) [PATCH v2 0/2] Remove cxl and cxlflash drivers

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Message-ID: <173915612139.10716.387713440778948780.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date: Sun,  9 Feb 2025 21:58:23 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com,
        ukrishn@...ux.ibm.com, clombard@...ux.ibm.com, vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH v2 0/2] Remove cxl and cxlflash drivers

On Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:27:58 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote:

> This series removes the cxl and cxlflash drivers for IBM CAPI devices.
> 
> CAPI devices have been out of production for some time, and we're not
> aware of any remaining users who are likely to want a modern kernel.
> There's almost certainly some remaining driver bugs and we don't have much
> hardware available to properly test the drivers any more. Removing these
> drivers will also mean we can get rid of a non-trivial amount of support
> code in arch/powerpc.
> 
> [...]

Applied to 6.15/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/2] cxlflash: Remove driver
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/772ba9b5bd27

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering