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Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:35:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from osiris (unknown [9.145.3.161]) by d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS; Mon, 6 Sep 2021 14:35:10 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 16:35:09 +0200 From: Heiko Carstens To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Luis Chamberlain , axboe@kernel.dk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com, atulgopinathan@gmail.com, hare@suse.de, maximlevitsky@gmail.com, oakad@yahoo.com, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, colin.king@canonical.com, shubhankarvk@gmail.com, baijiaju1990@gmail.com, trix@redhat.com, dongsheng.yang@easystack.cn, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, richard@nod.at, vigneshr@ti.com, sth@linux.ibm.com, hoeppner@linux.ibm.com, gor@linux.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, oberpar@linux.ibm.com, tj@kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] s390/block/xpram: add error handling support for add_disk() Message-ID: References: <20210902174105.2418771-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> <20210902174105.2418771-10-mcgrof@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-GUID: hBKOiASlRVgdP6m0ZVyfrL0h5Yz4Ft1A X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: sRBTe9g0KJq9hO82J9XVDCM7Uj8j1L5y X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.391,18.0.790 definitions=2021-09-06_06:2021-09-03,2021-09-06 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 malwarescore=0 bulkscore=0 priorityscore=1501 lowpriorityscore=0 clxscore=1015 spamscore=0 phishscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxscore=0 adultscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 suspectscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2108310000 definitions=main-2109060092 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 10:15:40AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Yes, we'll remove it. I'll schedule it even for this merge window. Should be away with -rc1.