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author | Paul Gortmaker | 2013-09-12 10:18:00 -0400 |
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committer | James Bottomley | 2013-12-19 07:39:02 -0800 |
commit | 1a4049ddfdaa75db7c9927dbc4d991bd73f923a0 (patch) | |
tree | 5e4456d426d8f9731ccf5071af645f5dccb62087 /drivers/scsi/Kconfig | |
parent | 59ab3c93233f4c7aa595d50ddafa952572626664 (diff) |
[SCSI] aci7xxx_old: delete decade+ obsolete driver
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 <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 41 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig index fe25677a5511..1f02003ea08d 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig @@ -499,47 +499,6 @@ config SCSI_AACRAID source "drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/Kconfig.aic7xxx" - -config SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD - tristate "Adaptec AIC7xxx support (old driver)" - depends on (ISA || EISA || PCI ) && SCSI - help - WARNING This driver is an older aic7xxx driver and is no longer - under active development. Adaptec, Inc. is writing a new driver to - take the place of this one, and it is recommended that whenever - possible, people should use the new Adaptec written driver instead - of this one. This driver will eventually be phased out entirely. - - This is support for the various aic7xxx based Adaptec SCSI - controllers. These include the 274x EISA cards; 284x VLB cards; - 2902, 2910, 293x, 294x, 394x, 3985 and several other PCI and - motherboard based SCSI controllers from Adaptec. It does not support - the AAA-13x RAID controllers from Adaptec, nor will it likely ever - support them. It does not support the 2920 cards from Adaptec that - use the Future Domain SCSI controller chip. For those cards, you - need the "Future Domain 16xx SCSI support" driver. - - In general, if the controller is based on an Adaptec SCSI controller - chip from the aic777x series or the aic78xx series, this driver - should work. The only exception is the 7810 which is specifically - not supported (that's the RAID controller chip on the AAA-13x - cards). - - Note that the AHA2920 SCSI host adapter is *not* supported by this - driver; choose "Future Domain 16xx SCSI support" instead if you have - one of those. - - Information on the configuration options for this controller can be - found by checking the help file for each of the available - configuration options. You should read - <file:Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt> at a minimum before - contacting the maintainer with any questions. The SCSI-HOWTO, - available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, can also - be of great help. - - To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the - module will be called aic7xxx_old. - source "drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/Kconfig.aic79xx" source "drivers/scsi/aic94xx/Kconfig" source "drivers/scsi/mvsas/Kconfig" |