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| author |   Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2013-09-12 10:18:00 -0400 |
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| committer |   James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> | 2013-12-19 07:39:02 -0800 |
| commit | 1a4049ddfdaa75db7c9927dbc4d991bd73f923a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e4456d426d8f9731ccf5071af645f5dccb62087 /MAINTAINERS | |
| parent | [SCSI] MAINTAINERS: update sg entry (diff) | |
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[SCSI] aci7xxx_old: delete decade+ obsolete driver
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 ---> 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 <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'MAINTAINERS')
| -rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index ac3284fe741c..82492de5919f 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -484,7 +484,6 @@ M: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> L: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/ -F: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old/ AIMSLAB FM RADIO RECEIVER DRIVER M: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> |