From: Heiko Carstens Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 07:32:01 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Merge branch 'tape-devices' X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01d098dcfdd433862dec89c8b4f9c6372211fe73;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git Merge branch 'tape-devices' Jan Höppner says: ==================== Quite a lot of the tape device driver code is outdated as devices and storage systems supported by that code aren't supported by IBM anymore for a long time. Especially physical tape devices are not supported or used directly anymore. The only tape storage system supported by IBM is the Virtual Tape Server (VTS) family with TS7700 systems [1]. Host systems will only talk to VTS and are presented with the virtualized 3490E tape device type only. VTS can and still uses tape libraries with physical 3592 cartridges as storage backends (e.g. TS4500). However, these are never seen by any host. The general goal/idea for the tape device driver is to only support VTS from now on. This series gets rid of old outdated code that is not relevant to VTS. There is probably quite a bit more that could be cleaned up or could be improved. However, this is a first run to cleanup the code base and somewhat reduce maintenance burden. [1] https://www.ibm.com/products/ts7700 [2] https://www.ibm.com/products/ts4500 ==================== Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens --- 01d098dcfdd433862dec89c8b4f9c6372211fe73