Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:24:57 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] no longer mark MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS as BROKEN and remove broken MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS drivers |
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:00:09AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:07 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch brings the MTD_SHARP driver back into life and removes the > > non-compiling MTD_AMDSTD and MTD_JEDEC with everything depending on > > them. > > Please provide further background on your reasoning. I'll enumerate my > questions to make it easy for you to answer each one fully. > > 1. Precisely when were these chip drivers marked obsolete?
Since kernel 2.4.11-pre4, released Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:47:23 -0700.
> 2. What was the reason for marking them obsolete?
The changelog says: - David Woodhouse: large MTD and JFFS[2] update
> 3. What are the factors which led you to conclude that _now_ is the time > to actually remove them?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/12/43
> 4. What are the factors which led you to _remove_ the map drivers which > currently use the obsolete chip drivers, rather than taking the obvious > alternative solution for those map drivers?
It seems that for one and a half years noone considered it a problem that they were no longer available...
> dwmw2
cu Adrian
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