Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has:
> - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
> - is still marked as BROKEN.
> 
> Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
> unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.
> 
> But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
> present in the older kernel releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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