From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751275AbaEXMNo (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2014 08:13:44 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:48013 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750792AbaEXMNm (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 May 2014 08:13:42 -0400 Message-ID: <1400933617.6956.34.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] acornscsi: remove linked command support From: James Bottomley To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Paul Bolle , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 16:13:37 +0400 In-Reply-To: <538075E0.4080001@suse.de> References: <1400926433.31526.89.camel@x220> <538075E0.4080001@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2014-05-24 at 12:35 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: [...] > I'm all for it. Removing never-really-implemented feature on obsolete > hardware is always a good idea. > > Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke Wait, no, that's not a good idea. We leave obsolete drivers to bitrot. Particularly we try not to touch them unless we have to because there might be a few people still using them and the more we tamper, the greater the risk that something gets broken. On that principle, since there's no real reason to remove the code, it should stay ... until the whole driver bitrots to the extent that we can no-longer compile it. However, I'll do this if the Maintainer (rmk) acks ... because if it breaks he gets to fix it. James