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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Miroslav Zagorac <zaga@fly.cc.fer.hr>,
	Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario@emc.com>
Subject: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:06:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141230160616.GA29149@infradead.org> (raw)

We've got a few very old, isa-only SCSI HBA drivers in the tree.  Of
those only one (aha152x) sas significant maintaince since the dawn
of git, all others only saw global / automatic updates.  4 of those
are fairly trivial wrappers aroudn the NCR538 core, so I don't mind
keeping them:

 - dtc
 - g_NCR5380
 - pas16
 - t128

but I'd love to know if anyone is actually using the other drivers:

 - wd7000
 - aha1542
 - in2000
 - NCR53c406
 - sym53c416
 - u14-34f
 - ultrastor

note that the last two even drive the same hardware.  There is
significant cruft in all these, so dropping them would help
further maintainance of the SCSI midlayer.

             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-30 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-30 16:06 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-01-06 22:27 ` RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers? Ondrej Zary
2015-01-07 14:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-09 19:44     ` Ondrej Zary
2015-03-25 20:52 ` Ondrej Zary
2015-04-06 15:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-11 17:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-11 17:33     ` Ondrej Zary

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