Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:01:22 +0200 | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: time for some drivers to be removed? |
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Adrian Bunk writes: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:35:10PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > ftape-4.04? That's been a non-integrated external package for ages and ages. > > I doubt there's been any updates in it for 2.5/2.6 kernels. > >... > > Is there a good reason why it wasn't / isn't integrated?
Claus-Justus (the official maintainer) never bothered doing it.
> > Given how few still use these antiques (my "fast" Conner/Seagate drive gives > > 150KBps backup speed, wow!) I think simply maintaining status quo is the most > > reasonable use of peoples' time. > > The problem is that 2.6 doesn't maintain the status quo - it's no longer > possible to use ftape on a SMP workstation.
Yes, but fixing that one problem is probably a lot less work than merging ftape-4. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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