0) I've tried to get a trivial patch upstream. It silences a build time warning generated by the advansys driver: - November 2012: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/5/164 ; - January 2013: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/29/144 ; and - January 2014: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/8/569 . That patch seems to be going nowhere. So a kernel build still generates a warning when this driver is included. After seven years that is getting pointless. 1) It seems that advansys is unmaintained. The last time its maintainer touched it - by acking a patch - was in 2008, with commit 25729a7fb88e ("[SCSI] advansys, arcmsr, ipr, nsp32, qla1280, stex: use pci_ioremap_bar()"). Advansys boards should also be quite old by now. I _guess_ they were produced until a decade ago. On the other hand, there still could be a few users left, see: - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844390 (July 2012); and - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558231 (January 2010). Other evidence of actual use in Fedora is much older. The most recent I could find was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=162431 (July 2005). And I don't think nine year old reports are very relevant. 3) Is it acceptable for Fedora to remove advansys from config-x86-generic? Or would my trivial patch - or something like it - be acceptable? Either way, I'd like to be able to finally drop my local patch. Paul Bolle _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
