From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966390AbWKTWeS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:34:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966409AbWKTWeR (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:34:17 -0500 Received: from adsl-216-102-214-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.102.214.42]:51591 "EHLO cynthia.pants.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966390AbWKTWeQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:34:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:41:06 -0800 From: Brad Boyer To: Adrian Bunk 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 Message-ID: <20061120064106.GA25209@cynthia.pants.nu> References: <20061120210654.GC31879@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061120210654.GC31879@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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