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SubjectRe: scsi: delete decade+ obsolete aic7xxx_old driver
On 09/17/2013 08:27 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 21:51 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215
>
> Well, this didn't end up as an entire waste of my time. After that
> message I sent a patch to Fedora's kernel list, and a reminder a few
> months later[1]. That prompted Josh Boyer to remove this old driver from
> the Fedora build[2].
>
> And now that driver is disabled in all kernels that Fedora currently
> ships. I'm not familiar with any complaints about this decision.
>
Ok, good to know.
So this patch appears to be good, then.

Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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