Re: Time to prune some drivers? ISA SCSI, tape, etc.

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:46:50AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> We dropped support for genuine i386 systems a wile ago now, but we are still 
> carrying around a bunch of legacy drivers that should probably go... namely 
> ISA SCSI, tape controller, and CD-ROM controller drivers.
> 
> Any reason to keep them around?
> 
> adv_isa
> aha_isa
> ahc_isa
> aic_isa
> bha_isa
> esp_isa
> mcd.c
> seagate
> uha_isa
> wt

One vote for removing them from GENERIC is that it removes the rather
dubious ISA grope procedures that the ISA drivers have to use.

        David

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