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<title>linux-dev/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel development work - see feature branches</subtitle>
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<updated>2013-12-19T15:39:02Z</updated>
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<title>[SCSI] aci7xxx_old: delete decade+ obsolete driver</title>
<updated>2013-12-19T15:39:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
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<published>2013-09-12T14:18:00Z</published>
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After getting warnings in an allyesconfig build[1] from this
driver, I decided to remind myself just how old it was, and
whether it warranted fixing.  In the Kconfig help text, I found:

  "This driver will eventually be phased out entirely"

Going back to the history archive, I see the line was added[2]
in Feb 2002, when we moved from v2.4.2.1 ---&gt; v2.4.2.2

So, with over a decade of notification, and multiple major releases
since then, I think we can justify removing this.  Currently we have
people wasting time building it during routine testing, and then
wasting more time re-researching the known reported warnings, only to
find that nobody really is willing to integrate the fixes[3] for it.

A quick search didn't seem to indicate any active user base for it.
If someone happens to have a quirky _old_ card that the eleven year
old "new" driver doesn't work with, then it is entirely reasonable
that they stick with a kernel version that predates this removal.

[1] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_register’:
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7901:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7898:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_load_seeprom’:
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8517:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
    drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8510:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]

[2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git commit 44e8778c

[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: Spelling hsot -&gt; host</title>
<updated>2013-05-28T10:02:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-17T11:22:29Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>aix7xxx_old: switch to -&gt;show_info()</title>
<updated>2013-04-09T18:13:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2013-03-31T16:53:53Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix common misspellings</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T14:26:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T01:57:33Z</published>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos</title>
<updated>2010-11-01T19:38:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-01T19:38:34Z</published>
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"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fix comnment/printk typos concerning "empty"</title>
<updated>2010-07-12T16:03:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-12T15:15:44Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Remove obsolete #include &lt;linux/config.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2006-06-30T17:25:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jörn Engel</name>
<email>joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de</email>
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<published>2006-06-30T17:25:36Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel &lt;joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Linux-2.6.12-rc2</title>
<updated>2005-04-16T22:20:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-04-16T22:20:36Z</published>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
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