On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:50:14 -0500 Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did I miss an alternate method of handling ftape devices, or are these > old beasts now unsupported? I occasionally have to be able to handle > that media, since the industrial device using ftape for control updates > cost more than a small house.
Do you have hardware and the time to at least test cleanups ? > I can obviously keep an old slow machine to do the job, but I'd like to > know if I need to. The assumption was that since in 2.6 it was so ancient and unloved that nobody had even seen an ftape device this century. If it is still being used and you can test cleanups then the removal should be reverted Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/