Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

James Bottomley
2008-02-11T22:02:30Z

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:13 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:37 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:03 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > > > I'm going to guess that this is the entry in feature-removal.txt
> > > > > that need an update then:
> > > > >
> > > > > ---------------------------
> > > > >
> > > > > What: old NCR53C9x driver
> > > > > When: October 2007
> > > > > Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
> > > > > driver can be ported over almost trivially.
> > > > > Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > > > > Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > > >
> > > > Not immediately ... I anticipate a few "where'd my driver go?" type
> > > > questions from m68k for which this provides a useful reference to point
> > > > to ...
> > >
> > > Don't bother, we're fully aware of this.
> > >
> > > The shortest feature removal notice in Linux's history (is it?) didn't go
> > > unnoticed ;-)
>
> So....would a patch be welcome to remove this entry then?

Not at the moment for the reasons I already gave. Ping me in about
three months if it's not gone by then.

James