Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754228AbdDEPwA (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2017 11:52:00 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f53.google.com ([209.85.214.53]:35411 "EHLO mail-it0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752663AbdDEPvW (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2017 11:51:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove the obsolete hd driver To: Christoph Hellwig References: <20170405135923.953-1-hch@lst.de> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: <90ab54f6-4a1d-d3e3-fe53-b06454bb797f@kernel.dk> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 09:51:20 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170405135923.953-1-hch@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 373 Lines: 12 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