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authorBorislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>2008-02-26 21:50:36 +0100
committerBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>2008-02-26 21:50:36 +0100
commitd48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb (patch)
treeb7e868304251ff8d28b2f3564ccec1cc0ad7eebe
parentd12faa2736ebdee025a9aa07b2683c5fa8c86553 (diff)
ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt10
-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide-tape.c5
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 4d3aa519ead..ba899ff2a8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---------------------------
+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>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: libata spindown skipping and warning
When: Dec 2008
Why: Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
index 0598ecfd5f3..43e0e055777 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -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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