Re: [PATCH 0/2] Remove cxl and cxlflash drivers

[Michael Ellerman]

Andrew Donnellan <ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> This series removes the cxl and cxlflash drivers for IBM CAPI devices.
>
> CAPI devices have been out of production for some time, and we're not
> aware of any remaining users who are likely to want a modern kernel.
> There's almost certainly some remaining driver bugs and we don't have much
> hardware available to properly test the drivers any more. Removing these
> drivers will also mean we can get rid of a non-trivial amount of support
> code in arch/powerpc.
>
> Thanks to everyone who's worked on these drivers over the last decade.

It would be good to explain that this only removes support for the
original CAPI interface - not the Power9 "OpenCAPI", which is still
supported by drivers/misc/ocxl.

cheers