i7300_idle: Remove this driver
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 06:23:17 +0000 (01:23 -0500)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:07:56 +0000 (12:07 +0100)
commitb65ce83f2a607ad478c5492812f5f218e8d57a6b
treee935c3efcdda516d4a400aeedbcf5cd1f209ef2f
parenta25f0944ba9b1d8a6813fd6f1a86f1bd59ac25a6
i7300_idle: Remove this driver

In preparation for removing the idle_notifier, remove its only user, the
i7300_idle driver.

i7300_idle was deployed in 2008 to reduce idle memory power on systems
using the i7300 chipset.  The driver worked by throttling the
fully-buffered DIMMs during idle periods using the IOAT DMA engine.

The driver ran only on the i7300 chip-set, and no other hardware has used
this mechanism.  The driver no longer has a maintainer.

Removing this driver will increase idle power on i7300 systems when they
run the new kernel without the driver.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ad6a044e57cc75f44cc8621abe846e58f7882243.1479449716.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
MAINTAINERS
drivers/dma/ioat/registers.h
drivers/idle/Kconfig
drivers/idle/Makefile
drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c [deleted file]