Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754652AbWLRVvb (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:51:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754651AbWLRVvb (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:51:31 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:55655 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754650AbWLRVva (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:51:30 -0500 Message-ID: <45870EB9.5080800@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:13 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 References: <4582D246.3010701@tmr.com> <20061215172852.2d4dcaa6@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20061215172852.2d4dcaa6@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1488 Lines: 39 Alan wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500 > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Did I miss an alternate method of handling ftape devices, or are these >> old beasts now unsupported? I occasionally have to be able to handle >> that media, since the industrial device using ftape for control updates >> cost more than a small house. >> > > Do you have hardware and the time to at least test cleanups ? > > >> I can obviously keep an old slow machine to do the job, but I'd like to >> know if I need to. >> > > The assumption was that since in 2.6 it was so ancient and unloved that > nobody had even seen an ftape device this century. If it is still being > used and you can test cleanups then the removal should be reverted As much as I have in the past supported keeping useful features in the kernel, this one can go from 2.6 as far as I'm concerned. I would hate to see anyone spend any time maintaining something which is so little used. I can easily move the hardware to a 2.4 machine, or something running an early 2.6. I think "ancient and unloved" is an apt description. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - 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/