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* [PATCH 0/2] advansys: remove warning and mark Orphan
@ 2014-02-20  9:13 Paul Bolle
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From: Paul Bolle @ 2014-02-20  9:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Josh Boyer, Hans de Goede, Matthew Wilcox, James E.J. Bottomley,
	linux-scsi, linux-kernel

0) I've tried to get a trivial patch to the Advansys SCSI driver merged.
It silences a build time warning. See:
- November 2012: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/164 ;
- January 2013: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/29/144 ; and
- January 2014: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/8/569 .

That patch seems to be going nowhere. So a kernel build still generates
a warning when this driver is included. After seven years that is
getting pointless.

1) It seems that advansys is unmaintained. The last time its maintainer
touched it - by acking a patch - was in 2008, with commit 25729a7fb88e
("[SCSI] advansys, arcmsr, ipr, nsp32, qla1280, stex: use
pci_ioremap_bar()"). 

2) Fedora kernel people suggested to send this trivial patch to Andrew
Morton directly (see
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2014-January/004832.html ). They also suggested I'd mark this driver Orphan.

This small series does both.

Paul Bolle (2):
  advansys: change buildtime warning into runtime error
  MAINTAINERS: mark Advansys Orphan

 CREDITS                 | 2 +-
 MAINTAINERS             | 3 +--
 drivers/scsi/advansys.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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1.8.5.3

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