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From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
To: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] block: Remove skd driver
Date: Thu,  4 Feb 2021 17:43:41 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210204084343.207847-1-damien.lemoal@wdc.com> (raw)

Hi Jens,

Instead of spending time fixing the skd driver to (at the very least)
fix the call to set_capacity() with IRQ disabled, I am proposing to
simply remove this driver. The STEC S1220 cards are EOL since 2014 and
not supported by the vendor since several years ago. Given that these
SSDs are very slow by today's NVMe standard, I do not think it is
worthwhile to maintain this driver with newer kernel versions. I will
keep addressing any problem that shows up with LTS versions.

The first patch removes the skd driver and the second patch reverts
commit 0fe37724f8e7 ("block: fix bd_size_lock use") as the skd driver
was the one driver that needed this (not so nice) fix.

Please let me know what you think about this.

Damien Le Moal (2):
  block: remove skd driver
  block: revert "block: fix bd_size_lock use"

 MAINTAINERS               |    6 -
 block/genhd.c             |    5 +-
 block/partitions/core.c   |    6 +-
 drivers/block/Kconfig     |   10 -
 drivers/block/Makefile    |    2 -
 drivers/block/skd_main.c  | 3670 -------------------------------------
 drivers/block/skd_s1120.h |  322 ----
 7 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4017 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 drivers/block/skd_main.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/block/skd_s1120.h

-- 
2.29.2


             reply	other threads:[~2021-02-04  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-04  8:43 Damien Le Moal [this message]
2021-02-04  8:43 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] block: revert "block: fix bd_size_lock use" Damien Le Moal
2021-02-04  9:01   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-02-04  9:03     ` Damien Le Moal
2021-02-04  9:14       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-02-04  9:16         ` Damien Le Moal
2021-02-04  9:20         ` Damien Le Moal
2021-02-04  9:25           ` Johannes Thumshirn
2021-02-04  9:26             ` Damien Le Moal
2021-02-04 14:46 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] block: Remove skd driver Jens Axboe
2021-02-04 14:52   ` Damien Le Moal
2021-02-04 14:54     ` Jens Axboe
2021-02-04 14:57       ` Damien Le Moal

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