Re: [PATCH] remove ide-scsi

Alan Cox
2008-12-06T15:06:42Z

> ide-scsi has been practically a dead code for a long time now (IIRC it has
> even been broken -- by some general kernel changes -- for few releases and
> nobody noticed, till Boaz discovered it while doing unrelated SCSI fixes)
> but I kept it on the live support anyway. However there needs to be some
> limit to it, especially given that driver has been officially orphaned for
> over a year now and nobody stepped in...

And it basically still works. You've just removed some hardware support
for folks still trapped with the old IDE legacy drivers and some tape
drives etc.

I shall certainly be asking Linus not to apply your changeset.

Alan