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remove eata_dma driver

PATCH New Christoph Hellwig 1 participant 1 message Feb 11, 2003 SCSI

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PATCH 1/1 remove eata_dma driver

Last changelog entry is from 1996 and it had no changes ecept global search and replace since start of the bitkeeper history.

The alternate driver eata is maintained and the Kconfig file contains a stong advice on using it.

drivers/scsi/Kconfig +0 -22
@@ -471,10 +471,6 @@
 	  SCSI-HOWTO, available from
 	  <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
 
-	  Note that there is also another driver for the same hardware
-	  available: "EATA-DMA [Obsolete] (DPT, NEC, AT&T, SNI, AST, Olivetti,
-	  Alphatronix) support". You should say Y to only one of them.
-
 	  If you want to compile this as a module ( = code which can be
 	  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
 	  say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.  The module
@@ -511,24 +507,6 @@
 	  used by the elevator sorting option above. The effective value used
 	  by the driver for each probed SCSI device is reported at boot time.
 	  This is equivalent to the "eata=mq:8" boot option.
-
-config SCSI_EATA_DMA
-	tristate "EATA-DMA [Obsolete] (DPT, NEC, AT&T, SNI, AST, Olivetti, Alphatronix) support"
-	depends on SCSI
-	---help---
-	  This is support for the EATA-DMA protocol compliant SCSI Host
-	  Adapters like the SmartCache III/IV, SmartRAID controller families
-	  and the DPT PM2011B and PM2012B controllers.
-
-	  Note that this driver is obsolete; if you have one of the above
-	  SCSI Host Adapters, you should normally say N here and Y to "EATA
-	  ISA/EISA/PCI support", below.  Please read the SCSI-HOWTO, available
-	  from <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.
-
-	  This driver is also available as a module ( = code which can be
-	  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
-	  The module will be called eata_dma.  If you want to compile it as
-	  a module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.
 
 config SCSI_EATA_PIO
 	tristate "EATA-PIO (old DPT PM2001, PM2012A) support"

===== drivers/scsi/Makefile 1.37 vs edited =====

drivers/scsi/Makefile +0 -1
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX)	+= sym53c8xx.o 
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX)	+= ncr53c8xx.o 
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_ZALON)	+= zalon7xx.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA)	+= eata_dma.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO)	+= eata_pio.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST)	+= wd7000.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI_MCA_53C9X)	+= NCR53C9x.o	mca_53c9x.o

===== drivers/scsi/eata_dma.c 1.9 vs edited =====

drivers/scsi/eata_dma.c +0 -1572

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===== drivers/scsi/eata_dma.h 1.3 vs edited =====

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===== drivers/scsi/eata_dma_proc.c 1.2 vs edited =====

drivers/scsi/eata_dma_proc.c +0 -478

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===== drivers/scsi/eata_dma_proc.h 1.1 vs edited =====

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