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authorPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2013-09-12 10:18:00 -0400
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2013-12-19 07:39:02 -0800
commit1a4049ddfdaa75db7c9927dbc4d991bd73f923a0 (patch)
tree5e4456d426d8f9731ccf5071af645f5dccb62087 /MAINTAINERS
parent59ab3c93233f4c7aa595d50ddafa952572626664 (diff)
[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>
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@@ -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/
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M: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>