From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:49:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52393EEF.10705@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379442463.31104.11.camel@x220.thuisdomein>
On 09/17/2013 08:27 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 21:51 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215
>
> Well, this didn't end up as an entire waste of my time. After that
> message I sent a patch to Fedora's kernel list, and a reminder a few
> months later[1]. That prompted Josh Boyer to remove this old driver from
> the Fedora build[2].
>
> And now that driver is disabled in all kernels that Fedora currently
> ships. I'm not familiar with any complaints about this decision.
>
Ok, good to know.
So this patch appears to be good, then.
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cheers,
Hannes
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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:49:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52393EEF.10705@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379442463.31104.11.camel@x220.thuisdomein>
On 09/17/2013 08:27 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 21:51 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215
>
> Well, this didn't end up as an entire waste of my time. After that
> message I sent a patch to Fedora's kernel list, and a reminder a few
> months later[1]. That prompted Josh Boyer to remove this old driver from
> the Fedora build[2].
>
> And now that driver is disabled in all kernels that Fedora currently
> ships. I'm not familiar with any complaints about this decision.
>
Ok, good to know.
So this patch appears to be good, then.
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-18 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-17 1:51 [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver Paul Gortmaker
2013-09-17 1:51 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-09-17 18:27 ` Paul Bolle
2013-09-18 5:49 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2013-09-18 5:49 ` Hannes Reinecke
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