From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BA5C64E7C for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAE821D7F for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2389032AbgLBQWF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2020 11:22:05 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:54860 "EHLO verein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2389013AbgLBQWF (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2020 11:22:05 -0500 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 1CD5368AFE; Wed, 2 Dec 2020 17:21:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 17:21:18 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/34] scsi: drop gdth driver Message-ID: <20201202162118.GA32254@lst.de> References: <20201202115249.37690-1-hare@suse.de> <20201202115249.37690-2-hare@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201202115249.37690-2-hare@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 12:52:16PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > The gdth driver refers to a SCSI parallel, PCI-only HBA RAID adapter > which was manufactured by the now-defunct ICP Vortex company, later > acquired by Adaptec and superseded by the aacraid series of controllers. > The driver itself would require a major overhaul before any modifications > can be attempted, but seeing that it's unlikely to have any users left > it should rather be removed completely. The driver is pretty horrible, so I'm not going to complain if it goes away. Let's hope one relies on it, and we don't have to bring it back.. Cautiously-Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Once this driver is gone we can also remove scsi_get_host_dev and scsi_free_host_dev.