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? > > In particular: > > SCSI_ADVANSYS - vendor went out of market afaik. Probably not many left. Andi, My advansys controllers work fine in lk 2.6 . Advansys itself (or its SCSI HBA line) was onsold several times. I'm not sure if they are still available (the last ones for sale that I noticed were for SCSI (SPI-based) scanners). When lk 2.5 development changes broke the drivers, patches came in from several contributors to fix them (usually the minimum required). I believe they are still out there, probably in decreasing numbers (e.g. I decommissioned a server using one last week). It's nice (albeit aging) hardware whose reliability exceeds that of a few other HBA manufacturers' products I could name. So whoever marked the advansys driver as broken was making some political statement IMO. If it ain't broken, it shouldn't be marked as BROKEN. If the kernel source was split up at some stage (rather than one big source tarball), it may be appropriate to put the advansys driver in with the second tier (looking for a better term than "legacy") drivers. Doug Gilbert - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
