Remove long-unmaintained ftape driver subsystem.

It's bitrotten, long unmaintained, long hidden under BROKEN_ON_SMP, etc. As scheduled in feature-removal-schedule.txt, and ack'd several times on lkml. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
mariux64 · Dec 4, 2006 · d916faa · d916faa
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diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -104,8 +104,6 @@ firmware_class/
 	- request_firmware() hotplug interface info.
 floppy.txt
 	- notes and driver options for the floppy disk driver.
-ftape.txt
-	- notes about the floppy tape device driver.
 hayes-esp.txt
 	- info on using the Hayes ESP serial driver.
 highuid.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -234,14 +234,6 @@ Who:	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	ftape
-When:	2.6.20
-Why:	Orphaned for ages.  SMP bugs long unfixed.  Few users left
-	in the world.
-Who:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:	IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers
 When:	2.6.22
 Why:	The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old

diff --git a/Documentation/ftape.txt b/Documentation/ftape.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -557,9 +557,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 	floppy=		[HW]
 			See Documentation/floppy.txt.
 
-	ftape=		[HW] Floppy Tape subsystem debugging options.
-			See Documentation/ftape.txt.
-
 	gamecon.map[2|3]=
 			[HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad
 			support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port)

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1166,11 +1166,6 @@ P:	David Howells
 M:	dhowells@redhat.com
 S:	Maintained
 
-FTAPE/QIC-117
-L:	linux-tape@vger.kernel.org
-W:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftape
-S:	Orphan
-
 FUSE: FILESYSTEM IN USERSPACE
 P:	Miklos Szeredi
 M:	miklos@szeredi.hu

diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -855,39 +855,6 @@ config TANBAC_TB0219
 	depends TANBAC_TB022X
 	select GPIO_VR41XX
 
-menu "Ftape, the floppy tape device driver"
-
-config FTAPE
-	tristate "Ftape (QIC-80/Travan) support"
-	depends on BROKEN_ON_SMP && (ALPHA || X86)
-	---help---
-	  If you have a tape drive that is connected to your floppy
-	  controller, say Y here.
-
-	  Some tape drives (like the Seagate "Tape Store 3200" or the Iomega
-	  "Ditto 3200" or the Exabyte "Eagle TR-3") come with a "high speed"
-	  controller of their own. These drives (and their companion
-	  controllers) are also supported if you say Y here.
-
-	  If you have a special controller (such as the CMS FC-10, FC-20,
-	  Mountain Mach-II, or any controller that is based on the Intel 82078
-	  FDC like the high speed controllers by Seagate and Exabyte and
-	  Iomega's "Ditto Dash") you must configure it by selecting the
-	  appropriate entries from the "Floppy tape controllers" sub-menu
-	  below and possibly modify the default values for the IRQ and DMA
-	  channel and the IO base in ftape's configuration menu.
-
-	  If you want to use your floppy tape drive on a PCI-bus based system,
-	  please read the file <file:drivers/char/ftape/README.PCI>.
-
-	  The ftape kernel driver is also available as a runtime loadable
-	  module. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
-	  module will be called ftape.
-
-source "drivers/char/ftape/Kconfig"
-
-endmenu
-
 source "drivers/char/agp/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/char/drm/Kconfig"