Re: [PATCH] firmware: Remove obsolete Myricom firmware

[Paul Gortmaker]

On 12-07-25 01:30 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
> The Myricom GB driver firmware is no longer in use. Furthermore,
> CONFIG_MYRI_SBUS is no longer defined.

If there is going to be more of these, it is kind of nice to
have in the commit header a reference to the commit when the
original user(s) went away.

In this case, it was:

---
commit 1b9c4134c126aa8ae00a57672d4a4eaecc436b54
Author: Jon Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Jun 20 12:51:22 2011 -0700

    myri_sbus: remove driver
    
    Remove the myri_sbus driver. Why?
    * There is no possibility of ethernet mode on this adapter, so it's
      Myrinet only.
    * It won't inter-op with modern versions of Myrinet, and thus can only
      work with legacy adapters.
    * There are no in-kernel Linux drivers for the PCI version of this
      adapter, so it only can work on ~15 year old Sun hardware.
    
    It's long in the tooth, let's take it to the knackers.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
----

Thanks,
Paul.

> 
> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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