On Wed, Feb 13 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Jens, > > Please pull the following to get the removal of the original IBM PC-XT > hard disk driver from the block layer (drivers/block/xd.c). > > As near as I can tell, it hasn't seen a run time fix in over a dozen > years, and with drive sizes of 10-20MB, and performance of about 128kB/s > maximum, it is no surprise that it has been completely unused for well > over a decade. > > The removal was originally posted[1] well over a month ago, and since > then, there has been nobody objecting to the removal, aside from someone > who had mistakenly confused it with a completely different driver (hd.c) > > I've done a test merge followed by an allmodconfig/allyesconfig for > x86-64 on the "for-next" branch of: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git > > to ensure that there was no Makefile/Kconfig fallout since the 3.8-rc2 > the original commit was created and tested on. > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1935381/
Pulled, I'm pretty sure this hasn't been used in a decade at least. In any case, it sits there nicely in history if someone wants to resurrect it. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
