This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver like
pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
---
drivers/char/Kconfig | 10 ----------
drivers/char/ftape/Kconfig | 12 +-----------
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.15-mm2-full/drivers/char/Kconfig.old 2006-01-10 21:32:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-mm2-full/drivers/char/Kconfig 2006-01-10 21:33:11.000000000 +0100
@@ -881,16 +881,6 @@
module. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called ftape.
- Note that the Ftape-HOWTO is out of date (sorry) and documents the
- older version 2.08 of this software but still contains useful
- information. There is a web page with more recent documentation at
- <http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/>. This page
- always contains the latest release of the ftape driver and useful
- information (backup software, ftape related patches and
- documentation, FAQ). Note that the file system interface has
- changed quite a bit compared to previous versions of ftape. Please
- read <file:Documentation/ftape.txt>.
-
source "drivers/char/ftape/Kconfig"
endmenu
--- linux-2.6.15-mm2-full/drivers/char/ftape/Kconfig.old 2006-01-10 21:33:21.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.15-mm2-full/drivers/char/ftape/Kconfig 2006-01-10 21:34:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -25,17 +25,7 @@
support", above) then `zft-compressor' will be loaded
automatically by zftape when needed.
- Despite its name, zftape does NOT use compression by default. The
- file <file:Documentation/ftape.txt> contains a short description of
- the most important changes in the file system interface compared to
- previous versions of ftape. The ftape home page
- <http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/> contains
- further information.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: zftape can read archives created by previous
- versions of ftape and provide file mark support (i.e. fast skipping
- between tape archives) but previous version of ftape will lack file
- mark support when reading archives produced by zftape.
+ Despite its name, zftape does NOT use compression by default.
config ZFT_DFLT_BLK_SZ
int "Default block size"
On 2006-01-10, at 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver
> like
> pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files.
You could just remove this driver completely as well. Because
practically since
it's inclusion in to the main stream kernel it has been outdated and
nonfunctioning.
1. Formerly the actually usable driver has actually maintained under
the URL data you remove.
2. Nobody ever cared to synchronize the maintained driver and the in
kernel one.
3. The physical recording format in the driver provided with the
kernel is broken.
4. Right now the corresponding user space tools can't be found on the
web any longer.
5. I'm not talking about years. Its more then 5 years in this case.
Marcin Dalecki writes:
>
> On 2006-01-10, at 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver
> > like
> > pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files.
>
> You could just remove this driver completely as well. Because
> practically since
> it's inclusion in to the main stream kernel it has been outdated and
> nonfunctioning.
There exists configurations for which it does work.
> 4. Right now the corresponding user space tools can't be found on the
> web any longer.
The only required tools are standard things like mt and tar or cpio.
The tape formatting tools are out in the wild somewhere, big deal.
Or are you volunteering to take over maintenance of ftape-4.x and merge
that into the kernel?
On 2006-01-11, at 11:57, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Marcin Dalecki writes:
>>
>> On 2006-01-10, at 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>> This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver
>>> like
>>> pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files.
>>
>> You could just remove this driver completely as well. Because
>> practically since
>> it's inclusion in to the main stream kernel it has been outdated and
>> nonfunctioning.
>
> There exists configurations for which it does work.
>
>> 4. Right now the corresponding user space tools can't be found on the
>> web any longer.
>
> The only required tools are standard things like mt and tar or cpio.
> The tape formatting tools are out in the wild somewhere, big deal.
There are definitively no tape formatting tools for the in-kernel
version.
Formatting was only supported by the external driver ever.
And this brings your former statement about some supposedly working
configurations
in to question.
> Or are you volunteering to take over maintenance of ftape-4.x and
> merge
> that into the kernel?
No. Tough I have been messing with the ftape driver a *long* time ago
and
still have two QIC drives in the dust bin - I'm considering this kind
of hardware obsolete by a large margin.