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From: martin.petersen@oracle.com (Martin K. Petersen)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: eata: drop VLA in reorder()
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:35:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1y3iwem87.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFww=otC4Wv40enadF+9NAyWG4Hotzjvv2EKb+_wGFui-w@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2018 11:45:53 -0700")


Linus,

> That said, I wonder if the solution to this particular driver is
> "delete it". Because the hardware is truly ancient and nobody sane
> would use it any more.

I'm not aware of anybody actively using these anymore. They are
mid-nineties vintage with an M68K processor onboard. I ran a couple of
these when they were new but haven't had a working board in probably a
decade.

No objections to Salvatore's patch but I have a slight affinity for
retiring unused code over patching it. So unless there are objections...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1520802418-17284-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
2018-03-12  3:08 ` [PATCH] scsi: eata: drop VLA in reorder() Tobin C. Harding
2018-03-12  6:36   ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
2018-03-12 10:11   ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2018-03-12 18:45   ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-13  0:44     ` Arthur Marsh
2018-03-13  2:35     ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2018-03-13  9:05       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-13 22:04         ` Salvatore Mesoraca

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