On Saturday 06 December 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. Please note that I already offered to put my time into helping people potentially affected by the change. > I shall certainly be asking Linus not to apply your changeset. If you actually cared about such folks (whose must be really tough on their luck since both IDE/ide-tape and SCSI/libata/st+osst should cover 99.9% of tape drives) you would be proposing constructive solutions (i.e. offering better libata PATA support) instead of threats. Thanks, Bart PS Looking at the patch history since 2002 (I'm lazy I didn't look past tglx's tree) it was mostly Willem, James or me who paid the cost of keeping ide-scsi and were targetted with insane bugreports. Your actual ide-scsi contributions in the meantime are near non-existing and I think that it could account into the weight of your voice... -- 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
