Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751056AbWLQUDS (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:03:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751125AbWLQUDS (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:03:18 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:36589 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751070AbWLQUDR (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:03:17 -0500 To: James Bottomley Cc: Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver References: <20061212162238.GR28443@stusta.de> <1165966274.5903.56.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20061213000902.GD28443@stusta.de> <1166198454.2846.10.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:03:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1166198454.2846.10.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (James Bottomley's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:00:54 -0600") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 636 Lines: 17 James Bottomley writes: > 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. How do you know if the driver is broken? Especially if it still compiles? Some of these things are 20 years old. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/