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Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months" 

This reverts commit d48567dd43.

Borislav is working on ide-tape "light" version instead.

Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 2008-03-22 16:44:27 +01:00
parent d708c40da8
commit ca4e2ab5b2
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@ -172,16 +172,6 @@ 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

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drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
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@ -3765,11 +3765,6 @@ 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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