From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261576AbVA2Tnx (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:43:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261574AbVA2Tlp (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:41:45 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:31759 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261559AbVA2TOh (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:14:37 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:14:30 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Jean Delvare Cc: LKML Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] mark the mcd cdrom driver as BROKEN Message-ID: <20050129191430.GF28047@stusta.de> References: <3s4gX-P6-45@gated-at.bofh.it> <20050129182255.37b8fe2c.khali@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050129182255.37b8fe2c.khali@linux-fr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:22:55PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > > The mcd driver drives only very old hardware (some single and double > > speed CD drives that were connected either via the soundcard or a > > special ISA card), and the mcdx driver offers more functionality for > > the same hardware. > > > > My plan is to mark MCD as broken in 2.6.11 and if noone complains > > completely remove this driver some time later. > > (...) > > - depends on CD_NO_IDESCSI > > + depends on CD_NO_IDESCSI && BROKEN > > Shouldn't we introduce a DEPRECATED option for use in cases like this > one? We could. We could also list MCD in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt first. But in this case I doubt it makes any difference. This driver is for hardware where I doubt many users exist today, and it should have been removed nearly ten years ago when the better mcdx driver for the same now-obsolete hardware entered the kernel. > Thanks, cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed