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block: remove the deprecated ub driver
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It was scheduled to be removed in 3.6.

Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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congwang authored and gregkh committed Sep 6, 2012
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11 changes: 0 additions & 11 deletions Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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Expand Up @@ -495,17 +495,6 @@ Who: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>

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What: Low Performance USB Block driver ("CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB")
When: 3.6
Why: This driver provides support for USB storage devices like "USB
sticks". As of now, it is deactivated in Debian, Fedora and
Ubuntu. All current users can switch over to usb-storage
(CONFIG_USB_STORAGE) which only drawback is the additional SCSI
stack.
Who: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>

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What: get_robust_list syscall
When: 2013
Why: There appear to be no production users of the get_robust_list syscall,
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12 changes: 0 additions & 12 deletions drivers/block/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -353,18 +353,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_SX8

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

config BLK_DEV_UB
tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver (deprecated)"
depends on USB
help
This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
such as flash keys.

If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.

If unsure, say N.

config BLK_DEV_RAM
tristate "RAM block device support"
---help---
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion drivers/block/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK) += virtio_blk.o

obj-$(CONFIG_VIODASD) += viodasd.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8) += sx8.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB) += ub.o
obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD) += hd.o

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