Commit ee8f353b authored Feb 04, 2021 by Damien Le Moal Committed by Jens Axboe Feb 04, 2021

block: remove skd driver



The STEC S1220 PCIe SSD cards are EOL since 2014 and not supported by
the vendor anymore. As the skd driver for this SSD is starting to cause
problems with improvements to the block layer, stop supporting it in
newer kernel versions.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

parent 203c0180

MAINTAINERS

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		@@ -16938,12 +16938,6 @@ F: include/linux/static_call*.h
		F: kernel/jump_label.c
		F: kernel/static_call.c

		STEC S1220 SKD DRIVER
		M: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>
		L: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
		S: Maintained
		F: drivers/block/skd*[ch]

		STI AUDIO (ASoC) DRIVERS
		M: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@st.com>
		L: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org (moderated for non-subscribers)

drivers/block/Kconfig

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		@@ -267,16 +267,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_NBD

		If unsure, say N.

		config BLK_DEV_SKD
		tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver"
		depends on PCI
		depends on 64BIT
		help
		Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
		STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD.

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

		config BLK_DEV_SX8
		tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
		depends on PCI

drivers/block/Makefile

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		@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP) += loop.o
		obj-$(CONFIG_XILINX_SYSACE) += xsysace.o
		obj-$(CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD) += pktcdvd.o
		obj-$(CONFIG_SUNVDC) += sunvdc.o
		obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SKD) += skd.o

		obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM) += umem.o
		obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD) += nbd.o
		@@ -43,5 +42,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RNBD) += rnbd/

		obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK) += null_blk/

		skd-y := skd_main.o
		swim_mod-y := swim.o swim_asm.o