Messages in this thread | | | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] ftape: remove some outdated information from Kconfig files | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:20:47 +0100 |
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On 2006-01-11, at 11:57, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Marcin Dalecki writes: >> >> On 2006-01-10, at 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >>> This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver >>> like >>> pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files. >> >> You could just remove this driver completely as well. Because >> practically since >> it's inclusion in to the main stream kernel it has been outdated and >> nonfunctioning. > > There exists configurations for which it does work. > >> 4. Right now the corresponding user space tools can't be found on the >> web any longer. > > The only required tools are standard things like mt and tar or cpio. > The tape formatting tools are out in the wild somewhere, big deal.
There are definitively no tape formatting tools for the in-kernel version. Formatting was only supported by the external driver ever. And this brings your former statement about some supposedly working configurations in to question.
> Or are you volunteering to take over maintenance of ftape-4.x and > merge > that into the kernel?
No. Tough I have been messing with the ftape driver a *long* time ago and still have two QIC drives in the dust bin - I'm considering this kind of hardware obsolete by a large margin. - 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/
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