ata: pata_legacy: remove VLB support
PATCH v2 1/1 ata: pata_legacy: remove VLB support
This significantly reduces the complexity of the pata_legacy driver. The VLB bus is very obsolete and last appeared on P5 Pentium-era hardware. Support for it has been removed from other drivers, and it is highly unlikely anyone is using it with modern Linux kernels. Some of these chips were integrated on motherboards, but they seem to have all been 486-era boards, which are equally obsolete.
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Changes in v2:
Rebase on latest mainline tree
CC maintainers
drivers/ata/Kconfig | 17 +- drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c | 867 +------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 878 deletions(-)
drivers/ata/Kconfig +1 -16
@@ -1127,13 +1127,6 @@ config PATA_OF_PLATFORM If unsure, say N. -config PATA_QDI - tristate "QDI VLB PATA support" - depends on ISA - select PATA_LEGACY - help - Support for QDI 6500 and 6580 PATA controllers on VESA local bus. - config PATA_RB532 tristate "RouterBoard 532 PATA CompactFlash support" depends on MIKROTIK_RB532
@@ -1152,14 +1145,6 @@ config PATA_RZ1000 If unsure, say N. -config PATA_WINBOND_VLB - tristate "Winbond W83759A VLB PATA support (Experimental)" - depends on ISA - select PATA_LEGACY - help - Support for the Winbond W83759A controller on Vesa Local Bus - systems. - config PATA_PARPORT tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" depends on PARPORT_PC
@@ -1201,7 +1186,7 @@ config PATA_LEGACY depends on (ISA || PCI) && HAS_IOPORT select PATA_TIMINGS help - This option enables support for ISA/VLB/PCI bus legacy PATA + This option enables support for ISA/PCI bus legacy PATA ports and allows them to be accessed via the new ATA layer. If unsure, say N.
drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c +5 -862
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Quoted 8 lines · Ethan Nelson-Moore
This significantly reduces the complexity of the
pata_legacydriver. The VLB bus is very obsolete and last appeared on P5 Pentium-era hardware. Support for it has been removed from other drivers, and it is highly unlikely anyone is using it with modern Linux kernels. Some of these chips were integrated on motherboards, but they seem to have all been 486-era boards, which are equally obsolete.Signed-off-by Ethan Nelson-Moore <[email protected]>
Applied to for-6.20. Thanks !
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Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research
Quoted 1 line · Damien Le Moal
Applied to for-6.20. Thanks !
You're welcome!
Ethan