On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:53:32PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > If you look at most of the code, it's inside ifdef debug statements or
> > comments most of them. So I don't think you can base any removal
> > suggestion on that.
> >
> > The patch itself looks fine though, if you send one that isn't mangled
> > I'll apply it to the 2.6.23 branch.
> >
> Sorry new Thunderbird Installation. I forgot it does that.
>
> - I have unearthed very old bugs in stale drivers that still
> used request->cmd as a READ|WRITE int
> - This patch is maybe a proof that these drivers have not been
> used for a long time. Should they be removed completely?
>
> Drivers that currently do not work for sure:
> drivers/acorn/block/fd1772.c
> drivers/acorn/block/mfmhd.c
Afaik these are old arm26 driver, and that port is dead and should
probably be removed from the tree entirely.
> drivers/cdrom/aztcd.c
> drivers/cdrom/cm206.c
> drivers/cdrom/gscd.c
> drivers/cdrom/mcdx.c
> drivers/cdrom/optcd.c
> drivers/cdrom/sjcd.c
These are old cdrom drivers that are broken in various ways and probably
should be killed off aswell.
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