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 a long time seem to be
> > unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.
> >
> > But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
> > present in the older kernel releases.
>
> Would you care to explain the rationale for this, please. If the driver
> had been riddled with errors and compilation problems, I might have
> acquiesced, but now I come to look it over, it seems structurally
> reasonably OK (we certainly have non-BROKEN worse ones) plus it compiles
> fine. So I'm wondering why it's marked broken in the first place.
>
> Since it was your original patch:
>
> Author: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon Sep 1 19:22:52 2003 -0700
>
> [PATCH] Mark more drivers BROKEN{,ON_SMP}
>
> - let more drivers that don't compile depend on BROKEN
> - MTD_BLKMTD is fixed, remove the dependency on BROKEN
> - let all drivers that don't compile on SMP (due to cli/sti usage)
> depend on a BROKEN_ON_SMP that is only defined if !SMP || BROKEN
> - #include interrupt.h for dummy cli/sti/... in two files to fix the
> UP compilation of these files
>
> I marked only drivers that are broken for a long time and where I don't
> know about existing fixes with BROKEN or BROKEN_ON_SMP.
>
> I'd like to know why it was marked BROKEN in the first place.
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.
> Thanks,
>
> James
cu
Adrian
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