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After getting warnings in an allyesconfig build[1] from this
driver, I decided to remind myself just how old it was, and
whether it warranted fixing. In the Kconfig help text, I found:
"This driver will eventually be phased out entirely"
Going back to the history archive, I see the line was added[2]
in Feb 2002, when we moved from v2.4.2.1 ---> v2.4.2.2
So, with over a decade of notification, and multiple major releases
since then, I think we can justify removing this. Currently we have
people wasting time building it during routine testing, and then
wasting more time re-researching the known reported warnings, only to
find that nobody really is willing to integrate the fixes[3] for it.
A quick search didn't seem to indicate any active user base for it.
If someone happens to have a quirky _old_ card that the eleven year
old "new" driver doesn't work with, then it is entirely reasonable
that they stick with a kernel version that predates this removal.
[1] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_register’:
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7901:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7898:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_load_seeprom’:
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8517:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8510:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch]
[2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git commit 44e8778c
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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| 00-INDEX | ||
| 53c700.txt | ||
| aacraid.txt | ||
| advansys.txt | ||
| aha152x.txt | ||
| aic7xxx.txt | ||
| aic79xx.txt | ||
| arcmsr_spec.txt | ||
| bfa.txt | ||
| bnx2fc.txt | ||
| BusLogic.txt | ||
| ChangeLog.1992-1997 | ||
| ChangeLog.arcmsr | ||
| ChangeLog.ips | ||
| ChangeLog.lpfc | ||
| ChangeLog.megaraid | ||
| ChangeLog.megaraid_sas | ||
| ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx | ||
| ChangeLog.sym53c8xx | ||
| ChangeLog.sym53c8xx_2 | ||
| cxgb3i.txt | ||
| dc395x.txt | ||
| dpti.txt | ||
| dtc3x80.txt | ||
| FlashPoint.txt | ||
| g_NCR5380.txt | ||
| hpsa.txt | ||
| hptiop.txt | ||
| in2000.txt | ||
| libsas.txt | ||
| LICENSE.FlashPoint | ||
| LICENSE.qla2xxx | ||
| LICENSE.qla4xxx | ||
| link_power_management_policy.txt | ||
| lpfc.txt | ||
| megaraid.txt | ||
| Mylex.txt | ||
| ncr53c8xx.txt | ||
| NinjaSCSI.txt | ||
| osd.txt | ||
| osst.txt | ||
| ppa.txt | ||
| qlogicfas.txt | ||
| scsi_eh.txt | ||
| scsi_fc_transport.txt | ||
| scsi_mid_low_api.txt | ||
| scsi-changer.txt | ||
| scsi-generic.txt | ||
| scsi-parameters.txt | ||
| scsi.txt | ||
| st.txt | ||
| sym53c8xx_2.txt | ||
| sym53c500_cs.txt | ||
| tmscsim.txt | ||
| ufs.txt | ||