please consider removing netsc520 driver from drivers/mtd/maps/

[Roland Kletzing]

every now and then i stumble across this "broken" module, and wonder if this 
cannot be removed in 2014. I`m quite sure nobody will be missing that one in 
3.18+ kernels.

it`s still being shipped as a module by popular distros like recent debian or
ubuntu. waste of diskspace and compile time, imho.

there are even chances that these driver being accidentally statically linked
into kernels, e.g. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/25/666 (cc fenguang wu because 
of this)

also see

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10840
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This is a driver for an obscure embedded demonstration board. It's also one where
there doesn't seem to be a good way to sanity check before probing. Quite why any
standard PC distro would ship it is beyond me
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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11226
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This is a specific driver for an embedded bosrd without autodetect possibilities,
so you shouldn't be loading it on random unrelated hardware.
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netsc520.c:
 * The NetSc520 is a demonstration board for the Elan Sc520 processor available
 * from AMD.  It has a single back of 16 megs of 32-bit Flash ROM and another
 * 16 megs of SDRAM.

http://sewoon.com/icmaster/Semi/amd/pdf/24323a.pdf
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NetSC520 Demonstration Board User ’s Manual
Demonstration Board Features
The NetSC520 demonstration board provides the following features. For details see
Board Functional Description
*ElanSC520 microcontroller
*AMD Am79C973 PCnet-FAST III single-chip 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet controller
*16 Mbytes SDRAM
*16 Mbytes XIP Flash memory
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regards
roland

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