Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:41:06 -0800 | From | Brad Boyer <> | Subject | Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver |
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:06:54PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has: > - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and > - is still marked as BROKEN. > > Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be > unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. > > But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still > present in the older kernel releases.
Feel free to remove this one. It was never in a state that worked, but was added to the tree anyway. I tried to fix it when I was given a copy of the documentation, but it needed more work than I initially expected. The initial version that was in the tree could only detect the drives, and the only thing I added other than some bug fixes was support for the eject ioctl. The read/write path in the driver is missing the actual data transfer routines, and is therefore not in a working state.
For the record, I believe the linux-mac68k list is dead.
Brad Boyer flar@allandria.com
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