Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:00:54 -0600
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On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:34 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:
> 
> > There must have been a compile error that has since been fixed, but I 
> > don't remember the details of this specific driver and I don't have 
> > such old compile logs anymore.
> 
> I wonder if we could gather some usage statistics, especially WRT
> really old hardware.
> 
> Perhaps we could invent some MODULE_WARN_OBSOLETE thing which would
> warn users about their drivers being removed in +6m (or maybe +12m),
> unless they let us know at http://qwe or mailto:ads?
> 
> I find it really hard to believe there are still users of things like
> CDU-31A CDs, XT MFM disk controllers, or NCR5380 SCSI host adapters
> (especially the real ones, not DOMEX etc. clones bundled with scanner
> just ~ 10 years ago).

I really don't see a need to declare drivers obsolete unless they bitrot
to the point they're demonstrably useless and no-one wants to step up to
fix them, which is what the BROKEN flag is for.

James


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