On 09/17/2013 04:13 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: > Yes, this driver is well past ready to be removed. > > Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> > > Sent from my ASUS Pad > > Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> wrote: > >> After getting warnings in an allyesconfig build[1] from this >> driver, I decided to remind myself just how old it was, and >> whether it warranted fixing. In the Kconfig help text, I found: >> >> "This driver will eventually be phased out entirely" >> >> Going back to the history archive, I see the line was added[2] >> in Feb 2002, when we moved from v2.4.2.1 ---> v2.4.2.2 >> >> So, with over a decade of notification, and multiple major releases >> since then, I think we can justify removing this. Currently we have >> people wasting time building it during routine testing, and then >> wasting more time re-researching the known reported warnings, only to >> find that nobody really is willing to integrate the fixes[3] for it. >> >> A quick search didn't seem to indicate any active user base for it. >> If someone happens to have a quirky _old_ card that the eleven year >> old "new" driver doesn't work with, then it is entirely reasonable >> that they stick with a kernel version that predates this removal. >> >> [1] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_register’: >> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7901:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in >> enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] >> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7898:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in >> enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] >> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_load_seeprom’: >> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8517:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in >> enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] >> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8510:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in >> enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] >> >> [2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git commit >> 44e8778c >> >> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215 >> >> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> >> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> >> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jbottom...@parallels.com> >> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
However, if we do this we're removing support for any non-PCI based adapters. I personally doubt that there are any installations left running on (E)ISA or VLB. But we should be clear on this. In general I'm in favour removing obsolete drivers, so Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
