From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux tape drivers Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 11:55:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20070404115536.fd752555.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200704031508.37222.kern@sibbald.com> <20070403145728.d8f83320.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <150283e90704032000p7f447a26pe3752b22024a1b67@mail.gmail.com> <200704041626.15298.kern@sibbald.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:52266 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993028AbXDDS42 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:56:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200704041626.15298.kern@sibbald.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kern Sibbald Cc: Willem Riede , Kai Makisara , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:26:14 +0200 Kern Sibbald wrote: > I'm all in favor of deprecating ide-tape if ide-scsi is a viable alternative, ow. ide-scsi is in very bad shape and nobody is maintaining it or fixing bugs in it or anything. The only reason we retain ide-scsi at all is, err, because some tape drives need it. If we have no alternative to using ide-scsi, and if the tape controllers in question are not some terribly obscure things which nobody would seriously use then we have a bit of a problem. I don't know of anyone who we can turn to to get anything done in ide-scsi.