Alan wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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