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Commit d48567dd authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months 



Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
parent d12faa27

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 


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What:	ide-tape driver

When:	July 2008

Files:	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c

Why:	This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no

	reason is an effort no one wants to make.

Who:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov

	<petkovbb@googlemail.com>



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What: libata spindown skipping and warning

When: Dec 2008

Why:  Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin

drivers/ide/ide-tape.c

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@@ -3765,6 +3765,11 @@ static int ide_tape_probe(ide_drive_t *drive) 
	g->fops = &idetape_block_ops;

	ide_register_region(g);



	printk(KERN_WARNING "It is possible that this driver does not have any"

		" users anymore and, as a result, it will be REMOVED soon."

		" Please notify Bart <bzolnier@gmail.com> or Boris"

		" <petkovbb@gmail.com> in case you still need it.\n");



	return 0;



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