Messages in this thread | | | From | Souptick Joarder <> | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2019 17:40:57 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: aic7xxx: Remove dead code |
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:03 PM James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-08-24 at 20:38 +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote: > > These are dead code since 2.6.13. If there is no plan > > to use it further, these can be removed forever. > > Unless you can articulate a clear useful reason for the removal I'd > rather keep this and the other code. Most of the documentation for > this chip is lost in the mists of time, so code fragments like this are > the only way we know how it was supposed to work.
Considering your feedback, let's keep this code :) > > A clear reason might be that it's impossible for aic7xxx ever to make > use of IU and QAS because they're LVD parameters and it's a SE/HVD > card, so the documentation in the code is actively wrong, but you'd > need to research that.
I need to look further to come up with a clear reason.
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