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authorPaul Gortmaker2012-05-18 01:06:13 +0200
committerPaul Gortmaker2012-05-18 01:06:13 +0200
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MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series. This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in carrying this any further into the future. One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set.
Converting an EISA driver to the new API mostly involves *deleting*
code (since probing is now in the core EISA code). Unfortunately, most
-drivers share their probing routine between ISA, MCA and EISA. Special
+drivers share their probing routine between ISA, and EISA. Special
care must be taken when ripping out the EISA code, so other busses
won't suffer from these surgical strikes...