On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 06:22:55PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Adrian,
The mcd driver drives only very old hardware (some single and double speed CD drives that were connected either via the soundcard or a special ISA card), and the mcdx driver offers more functionality for
the same hardware.
My plan is to mark MCD as broken in 2.6.11 and if noone complains completely remove this driver some time later.
(...)
- depends on CD_NO_IDESCSI
+ depends on CD_NO_IDESCSI && BROKEN
Shouldn't we introduce a DEPRECATED option for use in cases like this
one?
We could.
We could also list MCD in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt first.
But in this case I doubt it makes any difference.
This driver is for hardware where I doubt many users exist today, and it should have been removed nearly ten years ago when the better mcdx driver for the same now-obsolete hardware entered the kernel.