From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:03:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <1202432206.3171.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202432647.31361.26.camel@brick> <1202432873.3171.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1202432873.3171.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Harvey Harrison , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Linux/m68k List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > > > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based > > > but don't use the scsi_esp core (that's mostly m68k and alpha). Plus > > > the usual bunch of driver updates and the addition of a new enclosure > > > services driver and the corresponding ULD. > > > > > > The patch is available from: > > > > > > > I'm going to guess that this is the entry in feature-removal.txt > > that need an update then: > > > > --------------------------- > > > > What: old NCR53C9x driver > > When: October 2007 > > Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level > > driver can be ported over almost trivially. > > Who: David Miller > > Christoph Hellwig > > Not immediately ... I anticipate a few "where'd my driver go?" type > questions from m68k for which this provides a useful reference to point > to ... Don't bother, we're fully aware of this. The shortest feature removal notice in Linux's history (is it?) didn't go unnoticed ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds