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authorPaul Gortmaker2013-09-12 10:18:00 -0400
committerJames Bottomley2013-12-19 07:39:02 -0800
commit1a4049ddfdaa75db7c9927dbc4d991bd73f923a0 (patch)
tree5e4456d426d8f9731ccf5071af645f5dccb62087 /drivers/scsi/Kconfig
parent59ab3c93233f4c7aa595d50ddafa952572626664 (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/Kconfig41
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"