On Wed, Jun 20 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > On 06/20/2007 02:24 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 20 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >>On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:53:32PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > >>> drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c > >>> drivers/cdrom/cm206.c > >>> drivers/cdrom/gscd.c > >>> drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c > >>> drivers/cdrom/optcd.c > >>> drivers/cdrom/sjcd.c > >>> > >>These are old cdrom drivers that are broken in various ways and > >>probably should be killed off aswell. > > > >I agree (with both sentiments), would anyone mind if I just killed them > >off? > > I wouldn't. As far as I'm concerned everything in drivers/cdrom except > viocd.c and cdrom.c itself can go, assuming I'll be allowed to bring back > support for the legacy cdrom types I'd still like to have supported -- in > the first place mitsumi (mcdx), panasonic (sbpcd) and sony (cdu31a) and > perhaps at some point other types if/when I happen across the hardware. Sure, a working clean driver would always be allowed in. I'll remove the legacy drivers in 2.6.23. > The old drivers serve as a source of hardware information but at least > mcdx was broken in so many ways that it only did so at the source > level. When I wanted to check throughput with the old driver I > actually had to go back as far as 2.0.34 to find a working driver (the > old mcd.c, already removed since 2.6.10). 2.0.34 sources are available > from kernel.org, and 2.6.22 sources even from my local machine... Heh, that's pretty scary! > >mitsumi support is being reworked, that can get reintroduced once the > >driver is in a stable state. > > ... which, by the way, is still waiting on comment from anyone with a clue > as to why it makes the machine go boom (easily repeatable when using CFQ, > not or not easily when using AS): > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/4/50 Yeah I know, I will get around to it eventually. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
