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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:01:22 +0200
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>, heine@instmath.rwth-aachen.de,
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Subject: Re: time for some drivers to be removed?
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Adrian Bunk writes:
 > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:35:10PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > 
 > > ftape-4.04? That's been a non-integrated external package for ages and ages.
 > > I doubt there's been any updates in it for 2.5/2.6 kernels.
 > >...
 > 
 > Is there a good reason why it wasn't / isn't integrated?

Claus-Justus (the official maintainer) never bothered doing it.

 > > Given how few still use these antiques (my "fast" Conner/Seagate drive gives
 > > 150KBps backup speed, wow!) I think simply maintaining status quo is the most
 > > reasonable use of peoples' time.
 > 
 > The problem is that 2.6 doesn't maintain the status quo - it's no longer 
 > possible to use ftape on a SMP workstation.

Yes, but fixing that one problem is probably a lot less work than merging ftape-4.
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