From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764678AbXG2Pgq (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:36:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763289AbXG2Pgi (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:36:38 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:36248 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761047AbXG2Pgi (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:36:38 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:22:48 +0100 From: Russell King To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 Message-ID: <20070729152248.GB25431@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20070729145915.GF16817@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070729145915.GF16817@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: