From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Removing BROKEN scsi drivers Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:39:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20051005113925.GA11202@infradead.org> References: <200510051314.33411.ak@suse.de> <20051005113108.GA19437@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:22450 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965120AbVJELj1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 07:39:27 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005113108.GA19437@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, richard@sleepie.demon.co.uk On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:31:08AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:14:32PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > SCSI_AMIGA7XX - no maintainer, broken forever > > MVME16x_SCSI - no maintainer, broken forever > > BVME6000_SCSI - same > > I don't think there's any point in deleting these. I'm not even sure > why they're marked BROKEN. They share 99% of their code with drivers > which are working. And I thought Richard Hirst was maintaining them ... They don't. All these use the broken and obsolete 53c7xx driver, not James new 53c700 core. The driver should be easy to reimplement based on the 53x700 for someone who has the hardware and cares about it.