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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:18:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tzzu9q7k.fsf@defiant.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1166386966.9647.20.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (James Bottomley's message of "Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:22:46 -0600")

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> writes:

> One of the touted benefits of Linux is that we run on old hardware.
> Unless the driver is demonstrably wrong (and they do become so as the
> APIs evolve)

Sure, I expect they do - but nobody is able to check.

> The reverse (how do you know if someone's still using the driver) is
> equally hard to determine.

Sure. That's way I asked if we could make it easier.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-17 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 16:22 Adrian Bunk
2006-12-12 23:31 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-13  0:09   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-15 13:34     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-12-15 14:05       ` Oliver Neukum
2006-12-15 16:00       ` James Bottomley
2006-12-17 20:03         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-12-17 20:22           ` James Bottomley
2006-12-17 21:18             ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2006-12-18  8:47               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-18 13:48                 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-12-18 15:20                   ` Arjan van de Ven

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