Re: [2.6 patch] removed useless SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380_MMIO

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2005-11-12 at 05:37 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes the useless SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380_MMIO.
> 
> It's useless, since SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM != CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM.
> 
> This issue exists at least since kernel 2.6.0 and since it seems noone 
> noticed it I'd say we can safely remove it.


Its a one line bugfix so make the bugfix. There are often drivers that
needed tiny fixes and it turned out that

- Vendors had it in their patch tree for years
- The one person using it fixed it and didnt bother telling l/k cos they
though l/k was full of arrogant assholes who would just laugh at them
- The few users are still on 2.4 but will move to 2.6

Now when its a major rewrite to fix up some prehistoric piece of crap it
makes sense to dump it if nobody uses it, when you have a one line fix
required its a bit daft not to fix it.

Alan
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