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    [PATCH] ide-tape: remove obsolete onstream support · 725fb82e
    Andrew Morton authored
    From: Willem Riede <wrlk@riede.org>
    
    
    The onstream drives, be they scsi, atapi, ieee1394 or usb, are supported by the
    osst driver.  When the drives were new, code was introduced in ide-tape
    independently, but never really maintained since.  There are issues with the
    drives I found and dealt with in osst, that ide-tape doesn't address.
    
    So this code in ide-tape is both redundant and imperfect.  I assumed from
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107550547613846&w=2 that there
    was buy in for removing it.
    
    When this patch is applied, ide-tape will refuse to attach to an onstream DI
    drive, and will write to syslog to use ide-scsi + osst instead.
    725fb82e
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