Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 22:18 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > One of the touted benefits of Linux is that we run on old hardware.
> > Unless the driver is demonstrably wrong (and they do become so as the
> > APIs evolve)
> 
> Sure, I expect they do - but nobody is able to check.

if a tree falls in a forest but there's nobody around to hear it, does
it make a sound?

This sort of heisenbug questions aren't solved by "nobody hears it so
lets chop down the forest to make houses out of the wood" answers...


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