Re: [PATCH] scsi: target/sbp: remove firewire SBP target driver
From: Finn Thain <hidden>
Date: 2020-06-14 00:03:59
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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