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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: eata: drop VLA in reorder()
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:35:36 -0400
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Linus,

> That said, I wonder if the solution to this particular driver is
> "delete it". Because the hardware is truly ancient and nobody sane
> would use it any more.

I'm not aware of anybody actively using these anymore. They are
mid-nineties vintage with an M68K processor onboard. I ran a couple of
these when they were new but haven't had a working board in probably a
decade.

No objections to Salvatore's patch but I have a slight affinity for
retiring unused code over patching it. So unless there are objections...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering