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* Removing BROKEN scsi drivers
@ 2005-10-05 11:14 Andi Kleen
  2005-10-05 11:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
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From: Andi Kleen @ 2005-10-05 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-scsi


In 2.6.14rc3:

linux/drivers/scsi> grep -c BROKEN Kconfig
11

There are a lot of SCSI drivers who have been marked BROKEN forever. Or at 
least for all of 2.6 and one would expect if there are users left they would 
have fixed them by now. Would it make sense to remove them?

In particular:

SCSI_ADVANSYS - vendor went out of market afaik. Probably not many left.
SCSI_CPQFCTS - suboption of another driver, incredibly ugly code defying all 
coding standards.
SCSI_EATA_PIO - really old ISA cards. Probably all left over cards are way 
over their MTBF by now.
SCSI_SEAGATE - extremly scary code, i doubt there is any such card left
SCSI_MCA_53C9X - BROKEN_ON_SMP only. Ok I guess there are no SMP
Micro Channel systems.
SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP - afaik there is a newer driver for this
SCSI_AMIGA7XX - no maintainer, broken forever
ATARI_SCSI - no maintainer, broken forever
MVME16x_SCSI - no maintainer, broken forever
BVME6000_SCSI - same
SUN3_SCSI - sun3 never worked in mainline anyways

I think they could all go except perhaps the MCA driver. Or at least added
to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and then removed in a few 
months.

-Andi 

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2005-10-05 11:14 Removing BROKEN scsi drivers Andi Kleen
2005-10-05 11:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 11:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-10-05 11:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-05 12:32     ` Richard Hirst
2005-10-05 13:30       ` Kars de Jong
2005-10-05 14:00         ` Richard Hirst
2005-10-05 14:03         ` James Bottomley
2005-10-05 14:35           ` Rolf Eike Beer
2005-10-07  8:27         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-10-07 13:42           ` Richard Hirst
2005-10-07 13:53             ` Kars de Jong
2005-11-15  9:51               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-15 10:17                 ` Ingo Juergensmann
2005-11-15 10:30                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-15 11:32                     ` Richard Hirst
2005-11-15 12:08                       ` Roman Zippel
2005-11-15 12:11                       ` Kars de Jong
2005-11-15 13:05                         ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-22  8:36                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-22 21:43                           ` Kars de Jong
2005-11-22 22:20                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-27 16:47                             ` James Bottomley
2005-11-29 22:24                               ` James Bottomley
2005-11-30  8:31                                 ` Kars de Jong
2005-11-30  8:45                                   ` Ingo Juergensmann
2005-12-01 20:43                                 ` Kars de Jong
2005-12-01 20:47                                   ` James Bottomley
2005-12-01 23:29                                   ` Richard Hirst
2005-12-02 15:03                                   ` Ingo Juergensmann
2005-12-07 21:25                                   ` Ingo Juergensmann
2006-07-07 12:44                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-09 11:16                         ` Richard Hirst
2006-07-09 11:25                           ` Kars de Jong
2006-10-30 11:13                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-30 12:34                               ` Kars de Jong
2006-10-31 21:47                               ` [RFC PATCH] m68k: switch to 53c700 driver Kars de Jong
2006-11-02 21:34                                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-12-17 22:28                                 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-18  9:34                                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-12-19  3:09                                     ` Al Viro
2006-12-22 21:21                                       ` Kars de Jong
2007-04-29 21:43                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-05 11:43 ` Removing BROKEN scsi drivers Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-05 22:36 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-10-06 10:23   ` Andi Kleen

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