On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 16:29 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > 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.
Actually, that's not true: the aic7xxx driver has support for EISA (I know because I've got one) but not the VLB and some of the really old cards. > In general I'm in favour removing obsolete drivers, so OK, so do we have any real evidence that no-one uses this driver? Does any distro actually compile it, for instance? James -- 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/
