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remove the sx8 block driver
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commit d13bc4d upstream.

This driver is for fairly obscure hardware, and has only seen random
drive-by changes after the maintainer stopped working on it in 2005
(about a year and a half after it was introduced).  It has some
"interesting" block layer interactions, so let's just drop it unless
anyone complains.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721064102.1715460-1-hch@lst.de
[axboe: fix date typo, it was in 2005, not 2015]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored and gregkh committed Nov 8, 2023
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9 changes: 0 additions & 9 deletions drivers/block/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -303,15 +303,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_SKD

Use device /dev/skd$N amd /dev/skd$Np$M.

config BLK_DEV_SX8
tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
depends on PCI
---help---
Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
Promise SATA SX8 controllers.

Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.

config BLK_DEV_RAM
tristate "RAM block device support"
select DAX if BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions drivers/block/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD) += nbd.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP) += cryptoloop.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK) += virtio_blk.o

obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8) += sx8.o

obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND) += xen-blkfront.o
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND) += xen-blkback/
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DRBD) += drbd/
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