Re: can entire drivers/acorn subdirectory be removed?

[Satyam Sharma]

On 7/10/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>
> > * Robert P. J. Day (rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 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?

Would be best to just send out a patch getting rid of all that cruft.
If anybody (maintainer or otherwise) disagrees, we'll know then.

Satyam
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