From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:06:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20141230160616.GA29149@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:57582 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751455AbaL3QGR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:06:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Miroslav Zagorac , Dario Ballabio 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.