Re: [2.6 patch] mark the mcd cdrom driver as BROKEN

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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.

I actually have one (or two) of these, but I agree that in this case it 
makes no difference. As a general thing I think DEPRECIATED would be 
useful for the case where there is a newer functional driver. The 
systems I have are unlikely to ever run a current kernel, so I am not 
affected, and I suspect most others who have this old stuff are running 
2.0 or 2.2 kernels, also.

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