atausb perspectives

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:07:07 +0200
Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> At this moment we have two possible ways to support USB mass storages:
> umass and atausb. First one handles USB mass storage devices as SCSI
> ones by using CAM infrastructure. It is working and maintained. Second
> one was made to do the same using ata(4), is reports devices as ATAPI
> (in fact the same SCSI). But it is out of build since I can remember.
> 
> Looking on atausb state and ata(4) perspectives generally, I can't
> find any reason for having atausb in the tree. What is the public
> opinion, can we just drop it now?
> 
> -- 
> Alexander Motin

I think the rule is simple and well known: if code rots and nobody
steps up as a new maintainer, it gets booted out of the tree.

Looks like atausb is firmly in that category. Unless someone raises a
hand 

My $0.02
-- 
Alexander Kabaev
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