Re: Removing BROKEN scsi drivers

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@levanta.com>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:39:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

I never claimed to maintain the amiga stuff, but you are right that they
all use the 53c7xx driver that I originally created.  The sensible thing
to do is to migrate those systems to use James 53c700 core, but it seems
wise to poll the linux-m68k list before removing them.  I don't do much
with my VME hardware these days but I know there have been patches
posted for the serial driver recently so maybe someone has the scsi
working.

Richard