From: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: funaho@jurai.org, linux-mac68k@mac.linux-m68k.org,
geert@linux-m68k.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:41:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061120064106.GA25209@cynthia.pants.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061120210654.GC31879@stusta.de>
On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:06:54PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has:
> - already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago 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.
Feel free to remove this one. It was never in a state that worked, but
was added to the tree anyway. I tried to fix it when I was given a
copy of the documentation, but it needed more work than I initially
expected. The initial version that was in the tree could only detect
the drives, and the only thing I added other than some bug fixes was
support for the eject ioctl. The read/write path in the driver is
missing the actual data transfer routines, and is therefore not in
a working state.
For the record, I believe the linux-mac68k list is dead.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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2006-11-20 21:06 Adrian Bunk
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