Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:00:01 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@parallels.com,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus
 support.
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* Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:

> Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines
> that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB
> of memory.  A quick search on the internet, and you see that
> even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest
> in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from
> the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.
> 
> This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core
> kernel code and from the x86 architecture.  There is no point in
> carrying this any further into the future.
> 
> One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up
> stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in
> the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Thanks,

	Ingo
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