Ever since v2.4.3 this driver is advertised as not being under active
development. It's main advantage to most users will be the warnings it
generates at build time:
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]
Let's drop this old driver.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
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0) I'm trying to get my kernel builds (which use the Fedora kernel
config) warning free. Upstream declined the brilliant fix to silence
these warnings (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/21/104 ).
1) Plan B is to simply drop this old driver in the Fedora kernel
altogether. That should silence these warnings too, shouldn't it? But is
dropping this old driver acceptable?
2) This patch is entirely untested.
config-generic | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic
index 4a8015f..5cc8f8d 100644
--- a/config-generic
+++ b/config-generic
@@ -341,7 +341,6 @@ CONFIG_SCSI_3W_9XXX=m
CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
-CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=m
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=4
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE is not set
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1.7.11.7
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