Re: git: c433c96d865e - stable/13 - Update deprecation version for drivers removed in main

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 06:03:57AM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> On Thu, 25-Nov-2021 at 16:54:43 +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> > ...
> > commit c433c96d865e49db8bba63f27ee692ce0e752546
> > 
> >  Update deprecation version for drivers removed in main
> > 
> >  Removal of the amr, esp, iir, mly and twa drivers was planned before
> 
> What is the reason for this, in my case regarding twa? Are there
> changes which have to be done and nobody is willing to do them?
> Or is it more or less because nobody seems to be using it?
> 
> I am using twa on 5 machines and would greatly appreciate if it
> could stay.

+1.  While I perfonally don't administer such machines, 3ware 9K series
were quite popular some ten years ago for building hardware RAIDs, and
I assume there should be lots of cards still in good use.  E.g. Hetzner
still provides (and updates) instructions on how to use those on their
didicated servers*.

Why drop support in the first place?  They had not been converted to
use iflib(4) or something? :-)

./danfe

*) https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/raid/3ware-raid-controller/