Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:13 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 |
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Alan wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500 > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: > >> Did I miss an alternate method of handling ftape devices, or are these >> old beasts now unsupported? I occasionally have to be able to handle >> that media, since the industrial device using ftape for control updates >> cost more than a small house. >> > > Do you have hardware and the time to at least test cleanups ? > > >> I can obviously keep an old slow machine to do the job, but I'd like to >> know if I need to. >> > > The assumption was that since in 2.6 it was so ancient and unloved that > nobody had even seen an ftape device this century. If it is still being > used and you can test cleanups then the removal should be reverted
As much as I have in the past supported keeping useful features in the kernel, this one can go from 2.6 as far as I'm concerned. I would hate to see anyone spend any time maintaining something which is so little used. I can easily move the hardware to a 2.4 machine, or something running an early 2.6.
I think "ancient and unloved" is an apt description.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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