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remove the obsolete hd driver
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This driver is for pre-IDE hardisk that are only found in PC from the
stoneage of personal computing, and which we don't support elsewhere
in the kernel these days.

It's also been marked broken forever.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Christoph Hellwig authored and Jens Axboe committed Apr 5, 2017
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12 changes: 0 additions & 12 deletions drivers/block/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -514,18 +514,6 @@ config VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI
virtio protocol and not enabled by default by any hypervisor.
Your probably want to virtio-scsi instead.

config BLK_DEV_HD
bool "Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver"
depends on HAVE_IDE
depends on !ARM || ARCH_RPC || BROKEN
help
This is a very old hard disk driver that lacks the enhanced
functionality of the newer ones.

It is required for systems with ancient MFM/RLL/ESDI drives.

If unsure, say N.

config BLK_DEV_RBD
tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
depends on INET && BLOCK
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion drivers/block/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP) += cryptoloop.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK) += virtio_blk.o

obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8) += sx8.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD) += hd.o

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