From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:28:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061215172852.2d4dcaa6@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4582D246.3010701@tmr.com>
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> Did I miss an alternate method of handling ftape devices, or are these
> old beasts now unsupported? I occasionally have to be able to handle
> that media, since the industrial device using ftape for control updates
> cost more than a small house.
Do you have hardware and the time to at least test cleanups ?
> I can obviously keep an old slow machine to do the job, but I'd like to
> know if I need to.
The assumption was that since in 2.6 it was so ancient and unloved that
nobody had even seen an ftape device this century. If it is still being
used and you can test cleanups then the removal should be reverted
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-15 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-14 2:06 Linux 2.6.20-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 2:46 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-14 3:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 5:36 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-14 17:48 ` ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1) Stefan Richter
2006-12-14 19:08 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-15 3:17 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-17 18:11 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-17 18:31 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-17 19:04 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-17 20:21 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-17 23:34 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-18 1:05 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-18 4:29 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-18 15:45 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-18 15:54 ` Gene Heskett
2006-12-14 13:59 ` Linux 2.6.20-rc1 Alessandro Suardi
2006-12-14 14:18 ` Steve WIse
2006-12-14 15:48 ` Alan
2006-12-14 19:30 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-14 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 20:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 20:26 ` [PATCH] support HDIO_GET_IDENTITY in libata Erik Andersen
2006-12-14 20:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 20:40 ` Erik Andersen
2006-12-16 16:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-15 18:45 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-12-16 16:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 20:16 ` Linux 2.6.20-rc1 Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-14 20:28 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-14 20:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 20:36 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-14 20:48 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-14 21:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-14 21:20 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-15 0:48 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-15 1:41 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-16 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-16 22:28 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-16 22:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-16 23:00 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-18 18:32 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-18 18:41 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-14 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 21:44 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-14 21:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 22:33 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-12-19 12:41 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-19 14:32 ` Robert Hancock
2006-12-19 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-19 14:50 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-19 17:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 21:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 20:32 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2006-12-14 23:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 23:33 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2006-12-15 16:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-12-15 17:28 ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-18 21:57 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] ` <20061216174536.GA2753@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org>
2006-12-16 18:06 ` IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1) Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20061216225338.GA2616@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org>
[not found] ` <20061216230605.GA2789@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org>
2006-12-16 23:36 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20061216235513.GA2424@melchior.yamamaya.is-a-geek.org>
2006-12-17 0:04 ` IO-APIC + timer doesn't work Linus Torvalds
2006-12-17 5:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-17 5:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-18 6:16 ` Len Brown
2006-12-17 13:10 ` Tobias Diedrich
2006-12-17 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-17 14:57 ` IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1) Tobias Diedrich
2006-12-18 13:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-18 15:23 ` Tobias Diedrich
2006-12-18 15:34 ` Tobias Diedrich
2006-12-18 15:43 ` IO-APIC + timer doesn't work Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-19 8:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2006-12-19 11:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-20 6:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2006-12-21 19:15 ` Tobias Diedrich
2006-12-21 20:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-31 8:29 ` Yinghai Lu
[not found] <fa.RIN4HRPnLGt7UFAh8INm8D0Re5k@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.bn+19zl5p6JLw04wsJAH4QbLSps@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.hRBfOTtQdNUe6Lr4YfYDijpzP5g@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.p3mZcZJUV5vbz5aYUBbt4rJjr2A@ifi.uio.no>
2006-12-15 1:03 ` Linux 2.6.20-rc1 Robert Hancock
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