Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver

James Bottomley <[email protected]> writes:

> One of the touted benefits of Linux is that we run on old hardware.
> Unless the driver is demonstrably wrong (and they do become so as the
> APIs evolve)

Sure, I expect they do - but nobody is able to check.

> The reverse (how do you know if someone's still using the driver) is
> equally hard to determine.

Sure. That's way I asked if we could make it easier.
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Krzysztof Halasa
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