Re: [2.6 patch] ftape: remove some outdated information from Kconfig files

[Marcin Dalecki <dalecki.marcin@neostrada.pl>]

On 2006-01-11, at 11:57, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> 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 This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver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 it's inclusion in to the main stream kernel it has been outdated and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.

There are definitively no tape formatting tools for the in-kernel  
version.
Formatting was only supported by the external driver ever.
And this brings your former statement about some supposedly working  
configurations
in to question.

> Or are you volunteering to take over maintenance of ftape-4.x and  
> merge
> that into the kernel?

No. Tough I have been messing with the ftape driver a *long* time ago  
and
still have two QIC drives in the dust bin - I'm considering this kind
of hardware obsolete by a large margin.