Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really don't see a need to declare drivers obsolete unless they bitrot
to the point they're demonstrably useless and no-one wants to step up to
fix them, which is what the BROKEN flag is for.
How do you know if the driver is broken? Especially if it
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 21:03 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I really don't see a need to declare drivers obsolete unless they bitrot
to the point they're demonstrably useless and no-one wants to step up to
fix them, which is what the BROKEN flag is
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There must have been a compile error that has since been fixed, but I
don't remember the details of this specific driver and I don't have
such old compile logs anymore.
I wonder if we could gather some usage statistics, especially WRT
really old
Am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2006 14:34 schrieb Krzysztof Halasa:
I find it really hard to believe there are still users of things like
CDU-31A CDs, XT MFM disk controllers, or NCR5380 SCSI host adapters
(especially the real ones, not DOMEX etc. clones bundled with scanner
just ~ 10 years ago).
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:34 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There must have been a compile error that has since been fixed, but I
don't remember the details of this specific driver and I don't have
such old compile logs anymore.
I wonder if we
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:22 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
The SCSI_SEAGATE driver has:
- already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- is still marked as BROKEN.
Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:31:14PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:22 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
The SCSI_SEAGATE driver has:
- already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- is still marked as BROKEN.
Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such
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