From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: Marcin Dalecki <dalecki.marcin@neostrada.pl>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] ftape: remove some outdated information from Kconfig files
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:57:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17348.58532.375242.210475@alkaid.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52078AC1-B781-4664-A03A-1DC84C84490B@neostrada.pl>
Marcin Dalecki writes:
>
> On 2006-01-10, at 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver
> > like
> > pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files.
>
> You could just remove this driver completely as well. Because
> practically since
> it's inclusion in to the main stream kernel it has been outdated and
> nonfunctioning.
There exists configurations for which it does work.
> 4. Right now the corresponding user space tools can't be found on the
> web any longer.
The only required tools are standard things like mt and tar or cpio.
The tape formatting tools are out in the wild somewhere, big deal.
Or are you volunteering to take over maintenance of ftape-4.x and merge
that into the kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-10 20:57 [2.6 patch] ftape: remove some outdated information from Kconfig files Adrian Bunk
2006-01-11 0:03 ` Marcin Dalecki
2006-01-11 10:57 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2006-01-11 13:20 ` Marcin Dalecki
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