From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Gortmaker Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:11:30 -0400 Message-ID: <20130918001130.GA16331@windriver.com> References: <52386730.4060508@suse.de> <1379448641.2213.18.camel@dabdike> <5238BB4A.8000309@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com ([147.11.146.13]:35513 "EHLO mail1.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752890Ab3IRALF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:11:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5238BB4A.8000309@redhat.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: James Bottomley , Hannes Reinecke , linux-scsi list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [Re: [PATCH] scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver] On 17/09/2013 (Tue 16:27) Doug Ledford wrote: > On 09/17/13 16:10, James Bottomley wrote: > > > OK, so do we have any real evidence that no-one uses this driver? Does > > any distro actually compile it, for instance? > > Red Hat doesn't use it in any of their products (and it hasn't been the > preferred driver since about the old Red Hat Linux 7.0 days). The oldest ubuntu machine I could find was running a 2.6.32 kernel and even back then, they weren't building/enabling this driver either. Paul. -- > > > -- > Doug Ledford > GPG KeyID: 0E572FDD > http://people.redhat.com/dledford >