Re: [2.6 patch] ftape: remove some outdated information from Kconfig files

[Mikael Pettersson]

Marcin Dalecki writes:
 > 
 > On 2006-01-10, at 21:57, Adrian Bunk wrote:
 > 
 > > This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver  
 > > like
 > > pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files.
 > 
 > You could just remove this driver completely as well. Because  
 > practically since
 > it's inclusion in to the main stream kernel it has been outdated and  
 > nonfunctioning.

There exists configurations for which it does work.

 > 4. Right now the corresponding user space tools can't be found on the  
 > web any longer.

The only required tools are standard things like mt and tar or cpio.
The tape formatting tools are out in the wild somewhere, big deal.

Or are you volunteering to take over maintenance of ftape-4.x and merge
that into the kernel?
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