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

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Message-Id: <1166455210.3365.1050.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:20:10 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	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

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:48 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > if a tree falls in a forest but there's nobody around to hear it, does
> > it make a sound?
> >
> > This sort of heisenbug questions aren't solved by "nobody hears it so
> > lets chop down the forest to make houses out of the wood" answers...
> 
> Does that mean you don't want to know which hardware/drivers aren't used
> anymore and which ones are?

it means that IT DOESN'T MATTER.
* If it's entirely unused, we get no bugreports -> there is no problem.
* If it's used but good quality, we get no bugreports -> there is no
problem

we can't distinguish the two. But.. in neither case is there a problem
so why force anything? I know some people don't like Heisenberg
uncertainty, but... personally for me if the effect is the same I
couldn't care less.

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