Re: [GIT PULL] removal of 1980s PC-XT MFM 8bit ISA disk driver

From: Ondrej Zary
Date: Wed Feb 13 2013 - 15:55:28 EST


On Wednesday 13 February 2013 21:04:32 Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Jens,
>
> Please pull the following to get the removal of the original IBM PC-XT
> hard disk driver from the block layer (drivers/block/xd.c).
>
> As near as I can tell, it hasn't seen a run time fix in over a dozen
> years, and with drive sizes of 10-20MB, and performance of about 128kB/s
> maximum, it is no surprise that it has been completely unused for well
> over a decade.

It was fixed just yesterday by Linus Walleij:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/12/541

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Ondrej Zary
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