From: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: target/sbp: remove firewire SBP target driver
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 10:03:31 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.22.394.2006140934520.15@nippy.intranet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01020172acd3d10f-3964f076-a820-43fc-9494-3f3946e9b7b5-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Chris Boot wrote:
> I no longer have the time to maintain this subsystem nor the hardware to
> test patches with.
Then why not patch MAINTAINERS, and orphan it, as per usual practice?
$ git log --oneline MAINTAINERS | grep -i orphan
> It also doesn't appear to have any active users so I doubt anyone will
> miss it.
>
It's not unusual that any Linux driver written more than 5 years ago
"doesn't appear to have any active users".
If a driver has been orphaned and broken in the past, and no-one stepped
up to fix it within a reasonable period, removal would make sense. But
that's not the case here.
I haven't used this driver for a long time, but I still own PowerMacs with
firewire, and I know I'm not the only one.
> Signed-off-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 9 -
> drivers/target/Kconfig | 1 -
> drivers/target/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/target/sbp/Kconfig | 12 -
> drivers/target/sbp/Makefile | 2 -
> drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.c | 2350 -------------------------------
> drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.h | 243 ----
> 7 files changed, 2618 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/Kconfig
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.h
>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: target/sbp: remove firewire SBP target driver
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:03:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.22.394.2006140934520.15@nippy.intranet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01020172acd3d10f-3964f076-a820-43fc-9494-3f3946e9b7b5-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Chris Boot wrote:
> I no longer have the time to maintain this subsystem nor the hardware to
> test patches with.
Then why not patch MAINTAINERS, and orphan it, as per usual practice?
$ git log --oneline MAINTAINERS | grep -i orphan
> It also doesn't appear to have any active users so I doubt anyone will
> miss it.
>
It's not unusual that any Linux driver written more than 5 years ago
"doesn't appear to have any active users".
If a driver has been orphaned and broken in the past, and no-one stepped
up to fix it within a reasonable period, removal would make sense. But
that's not the case here.
I haven't used this driver for a long time, but I still own PowerMacs with
firewire, and I know I'm not the only one.
> Signed-off-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 9 -
> drivers/target/Kconfig | 1 -
> drivers/target/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/target/sbp/Kconfig | 12 -
> drivers/target/sbp/Makefile | 2 -
> drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.c | 2350 -------------------------------
> drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.h | 243 ----
> 7 files changed, 2618 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/Kconfig
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.h
>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
To: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: target/sbp: remove firewire SBP target driver
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 10:03:31 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.22.394.2006140934520.15@nippy.intranet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01020172acd3d10f-3964f076-a820-43fc-9494-3f3946e9b7b5-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Chris Boot wrote:
> I no longer have the time to maintain this subsystem nor the hardware to
> test patches with.
Then why not patch MAINTAINERS, and orphan it, as per usual practice?
$ git log --oneline MAINTAINERS | grep -i orphan
> It also doesn't appear to have any active users so I doubt anyone will
> miss it.
>
It's not unusual that any Linux driver written more than 5 years ago
"doesn't appear to have any active users".
If a driver has been orphaned and broken in the past, and no-one stepped
up to fix it within a reasonable period, removal would make sense. But
that's not the case here.
I haven't used this driver for a long time, but I still own PowerMacs with
firewire, and I know I'm not the only one.
> Signed-off-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 9 -
> drivers/target/Kconfig | 1 -
> drivers/target/Makefile | 1 -
> drivers/target/sbp/Kconfig | 12 -
> drivers/target/sbp/Makefile | 2 -
> drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.c | 2350 -------------------------------
> drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.h | 243 ----
> 7 files changed, 2618 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/Kconfig
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/Makefile
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/target/sbp/sbp_target.h
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-14 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-13 8:37 [PATCH] scsi: target/sbp: remove SBP target driver Chris Boot
2020-06-13 8:37 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-14 0:03 ` Finn Thain [this message]
2020-06-14 0:03 ` [PATCH] scsi: target/sbp: remove firewire " Finn Thain
2020-06-14 0:03 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-14 10:34 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-14 10:34 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-14 10:34 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-14 23:28 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-14 23:28 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-14 23:28 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-15 15:00 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-15 15:00 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-15 15:00 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-16 9:42 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-16 9:42 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-16 9:42 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-16 14:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-16 14:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-16 14:08 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-16 14:13 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-06-16 14:13 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-06-16 14:13 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-06-16 15:34 ` James Bottomley
2020-06-16 15:34 ` James Bottomley
2020-06-16 15:34 ` James Bottomley
2020-06-16 17:59 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-16 17:59 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-16 17:59 ` Chris Boot
2020-06-17 3:09 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-06-17 3:09 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-06-17 3:09 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-06-18 0:40 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-18 0:40 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-18 0:40 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-17 2:07 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-17 2:07 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-17 2:07 ` Finn Thain
2021-01-04 17:43 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-01-04 17:43 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-01-04 22:50 ` Finn Thain
2021-01-04 22:50 ` Finn Thain
2021-01-05 1:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-01-05 1:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2020-06-17 2:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-06-17 2:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-06-17 2:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-06-17 4:21 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-17 4:21 ` Finn Thain
2020-06-17 4:21 ` Finn Thain
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