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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	spyro@f2s.com, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_ACORNSCSI_3 driver
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:22:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070729152248.GB25431@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070729145915.GF16817@stusta.de>

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:59:15PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The SCSI_ACORNSCSI_3 driver:
> - has been marked as BROKEN for more than one year 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.

NAK.  I've had a patch to resurect it for some time.  Notice that this
merge window I applied some patches to the other acorn scsi drivers -
once I get enough time to separate out the changes I'll be applying
those patches.  It's relatively low priority for me though.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-29 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-29 14:59 [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_ACORNSCSI_3 driver Adrian Bunk
2007-07-29 15:22 ` Russell King [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-20  0:07 Adrian Bunk
2007-01-21 19:14 Adrian Bunk
2007-01-06 20:51 Adrian Bunk

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