Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751952AbWLQVSL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:18:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751947AbWLQVSL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:18:11 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:40936 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751944AbWLQVSK (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Dec 2006 16:18:10 -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> <1166386966.9647.20.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:18:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1166386966.9647.20.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (James Bottomley's message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:22:46 -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: 688 Lines: 19 James Bottomley writes: > One of the touted benefits of Linux is that we run on old hardware. > Unless the driver is demonstrably wrong (and they do become so as the > APIs evolve) Sure, I expect they do - but nobody is able to check. > The reverse (how do you know if someone's still using the driver) is > equally hard to determine. Sure. That's way I asked if we could make it easier. -- 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/