Re: Removing BROKEN scsi drivers

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On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:14 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> In 2.6.14rc3:
> 
> linux/drivers/scsi> grep -c BROKEN Kconfig
> 11
> 
> There are a lot of SCSI drivers who have been marked BROKEN forever. Or at 
> least for all of 2.6 and one would expect if there are users left they would 
> have fixed them by now. Would it make sense to remove them?

I'd say so yes


> I think they could all go except perhaps the MCA driver. Or at least added
> to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and then removed in a few 
> months.

sounds like the feature-removal should be done now before 2.6.14, and
the removal right after 2.6.14 goes out (if anyone later wants to revive
a driver they can always find the driver in the 2.6.14 tarbal after all)


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