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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix
> > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have
> > > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based
> > > but don't use the scsi_esp core (that's mostly m68k and alpha). Plus
> > > the usual bunch of driver updates and the addition of a new enclosure
> > > services driver and the corresponding ULD.
> > >
> > > The patch is available from:
> > >
> >
> > I'm going to guess that this is the entry in feature-removal.txt
> > that need an update then:
> >
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > What: old NCR53C9x driver
> > When: October 2007
> > Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
> > driver can be ported over almost trivially.
> > Who: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Not immediately ... I anticipate a few "where'd my driver go?" type
> questions from m68k for which this provides a useful reference to point
> to ...

Don't bother, we're fully aware of this.

The shortest feature removal notice in Linux's history (is it?) didn't go
unnoticed ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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