From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
linux-scsi list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:11:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130918001130.GA16331@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5238BB4A.8000309@redhat.com>
[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 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).
The oldest ubuntu machine I could find was running a 2.6.32 kernel and
even back then, they weren't building/enabling this driver either.
Paul.
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>
>
> --
> Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD
> http://people.redhat.com/dledford
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From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
linux-scsi list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:11:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130918001130.GA16331@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5238BB4A.8000309@redhat.com>
[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 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).
The oldest ubuntu machine I could find was running a 2.6.32 kernel and
even back then, they weren't building/enabling this driver either.
Paul.
--
>
>
> --
> Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD
> http://people.redhat.com/dledford
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-18 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-17 2:13 [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver Doug Ledford
2013-09-17 2:13 ` Doug Ledford
2013-09-17 14:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
2013-09-17 14:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
2013-09-17 14:42 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-09-17 14:42 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-09-17 20:10 ` James Bottomley
2013-09-17 20:10 ` James Bottomley
2013-09-17 20:27 ` Doug Ledford
2013-09-18 0:11 ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2013-09-18 0:11 ` Paul Gortmaker
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2013-09-17 1:51 Paul Gortmaker
2013-09-17 1:51 ` Paul Gortmaker
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