From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:03:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20061212162238.GR28443@stusta.de> <1165966274.5903.56.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20061213000902.GD28443@stusta.de> <1166198454.2846.10.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:36589 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751070AbWLQUDR (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:03:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1166198454.2846.10.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (James Bottomley's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:00:54 -0600") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley writes: > I really don't see a need to declare drivers obsolete unless they bitrot > to the point they're demonstrably useless and no-one wants to step up to > fix them, which is what the BROKEN flag is for. How do you know if the driver is broken? Especially if it still compiles? Some of these things are 20 years old. -- Krzysztof Halasa