Why I think FC3 sucks!

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 18:33 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:31:04PM -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
>  
>  > - Some drivers are intentionally deleted because "nobody has this 
>  > hardware any longer".
> 
> Examples please ? We support some pretty arcane stuff, so if the driver
> still builds fine, isn't a potential security disaster waiting to happen,
> and doesn't impact overall maintainence of the kernel package, I'm
> happy to reconsider any drivers if theres sufficient demand.
> (And in some cases, I've enabled stuff on request from a single user
>  as the driver made sense to enable).

How about the advansys driver? A number of people have asked about this
at various times:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111232
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112795
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120446
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124018

I still use one of these cards myself and the driver is still part of
the mainline kernel, though not built by default. The driver code is at
least partly maintained though, because it changes between releases.
It's sufficiently important for me that I maintain a web page showing
how to use an Advansys SCSI card in Fedora Core (http://www.city-
fan.org/ftp/contrib/drivers/advansys/) and the feedback I get suggests
that I'm far from the only one still using them.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>