From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757271AbXGIUlB (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:41:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754505AbXGIUku (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:40:50 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:54602 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754419AbXGIUkt (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:40:49 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.66.27 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:38:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: can entire drivers/acorn subdirectory be removed? In-Reply-To: <20070706183244.GB25207@gallifrey> Message-ID: References: <20070706183244.GB25207@gallifrey> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-36.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Robert P. J. Day (rpjday@mindspring.com) wrote: > > > and if that happens, then the config variables defined in > > drivers/acorn/block/Kconfig: > > > > config BLK_DEV_FD1772 > > config BLK_DEV_MFM > > config BLK_DEV_MFM_AUTODETECT > > > > would also vanish, which suggests that any references to *them* could > > also be deleted: > > Ah those are blasts from the past; I've got to wonder how many MFM > drives that still work are out there. the question remains -- is there any value to keeping the acorn stuff given that the Kconfig variables to select that code aren't defined anywhere? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================