Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-17 Thread Paul Gortmaker
[Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver] On 17/09/2013 (Tue 16:27) Doug Ledford wrote: > On 09/17/13 16:10, James Bottomley wrote: > > > OK, so do we have any real evidence that no-one uses this driver? Does > > any distro actually compile it, for inst

Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-17 Thread Doug Ledford
On 09/17/13 16:10, James Bottomley wrote: > OK, so do we have any real evidence that no-one uses this driver? Does > any distro actually compile it, for instance? Red Hat doesn't use it in any of their products (and it hasn't been the preferred driver since about the old Red Hat Linux 7.0 days).

Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-17 Thread James Bottomley
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 > > > > Sent from my ASUS Pad > > > > Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > >> After getting warnings in an allye

Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-17 Thread James Bottomley
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 > > > > Sent from my ASUS Pad > > > > Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > >> After getting warnings in an allye

Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-17 Thread Paul Gortmaker
On 13-09-17 10:29 AM, 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 >> >> Sent from my ASUS Pad >> >> Paul Gortmaker wrote: >> >>> After getting warnings in an allyesconfig build[1] from this

Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-17 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 09/17/2013 04:13 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: > Yes, this driver is well past ready to be removed. > > Acked-by: Doug Ledford > > Sent from my ASUS Pad > > Paul Gortmaker wrote: > >> After getting warnings in an allyesconfig build[1] from this >> driver, I decided to remind myself just how old

Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-16 Thread Doug Ledford
Yes, this driver is well past ready to be removed. Acked-by: Doug Ledford Sent from my ASUS Pad Paul Gortmaker 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 t

[PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver

2013-09-16 Thread Paul Gortmaker
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 ad