Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver

2013-12-27 Thread Olof Johansson
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Paul Bolle  wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful
>> of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND
>> driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for
>> storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash.
>>
>> So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by
>> anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes
>> every now and then.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
>> ---
>>  drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c |  238 
>> 
>>  1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c
>
> If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in
> drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in
> drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we?

D'oh. Yes, of course. v2 coming.


-Olof
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Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Bolle
On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful
> of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND
> driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for
> storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash.
> 
> So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by
> anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes
> every now and then.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c |  238 
> 
>  1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c

If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in
drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in
drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we?


Paul Bolle

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Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver

2013-12-27 Thread Paul Bolle
On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
 The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful
 of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND
 driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for
 storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash.
 
 So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by
 anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes
 every now and then.
 
 Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson o...@lixom.net
 ---
  drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c |  238 
 
  1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c

If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in
drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in
drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we?


Paul Bolle

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Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: remove pasemi_nand driver

2013-12-27 Thread Olof Johansson
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Paul Bolle pebo...@tiscali.nl wrote:
 On Thu, 2013-12-26 at 21:52 -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
 The PA Semi platform is sparsely used these days (with just a handful
 of known users out there). I'm 100% sure none of them use the MTD NAND
 driver -- most standard use cases include PCI-e SATA controllers for
 storage instead, and boot is done from LPC NOR flash.

 So, there's little reason to keep carrying a driver that's not used by
 anybody and that just gets hit by some tree-wide or tools-based changes
 every now and then.

 Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson o...@lixom.net
 ---
  drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c |  238 
 
  1 file changed, 238 deletions(-)
  delete mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/pasemi_nand.c

 If this gets accepted we should remove the related entry in
 drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig and the related line in
 drivers/mtd/nand/Makefile too, shouldn't we?

D'oh. Yes, of course. v2 coming.


-Olof
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