linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI

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Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:18:07 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.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
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