From 1a4049ddfdaa75db7c9927dbc4d991bd73f923a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Gortmaker Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:18:00 -0400 Subject: [SCSI] aci7xxx_old: delete decade+ obsolete driver MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit After getting warnings in an allyesconfig build[1] from this driver, I decided to remind myself just how old it was, and whether it warranted fixing. In the Kconfig help text, I found: "This driver will eventually be phased out entirely" Going back to the history archive, I see the line was added[2] in Feb 2002, when we moved from v2.4.2.1 ---> v2.4.2.2 So, with over a decade of notification, and multiple major releases since then, I think we can justify removing this. Currently we have people wasting time building it during routine testing, and then wasting more time re-researching the known reported warnings, only to find that nobody really is willing to integrate the fixes[3] for it. A quick search didn't seem to indicate any active user base for it. If someone happens to have a quirky _old_ card that the eleven year old "new" driver doesn't work with, then it is entirely reasonable that they stick with a kernel version that predates this removal. [1] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_register’: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7901:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:7898:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function ‘aic7xxx_load_seeprom’: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8517:5: warning: case value ‘257’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:8510:5: warning: case value ‘513’ not in enumerated type ‘ahc_chip’ [-Wswitch] [2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git commit 44e8778c [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/29/215 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke Acked-by: Doug Ledford Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- MAINTAINERS | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'MAINTAINERS') diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index ac3284fe741..82492de5919 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -484,7 +484,6 @@ M: Hannes Reinecke L: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained F: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/ -F: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old/ AIMSLAB FM RADIO RECEIVER DRIVER M: Hans Verkuil -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2