> ide-scsi has been practically a dead code for a long time now (IIRC it has > even been broken -- by some general kernel changes -- for few releases and > nobody noticed, till Boaz discovered it while doing unrelated SCSI fixes) > but I kept it on the live support anyway. However there needs to be some > limit to it, especially given that driver has been officially orphaned for > over a year now and nobody stepped in... And it basically still works. You've just removed some hardware support for folks still trapped with the old IDE legacy drivers and some tape drives etc. I shall certainly be asking Linus not to apply your changeset. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html