From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hirst Subject: Re: Removing BROKEN scsi drivers Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:32:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20051005123220.GB6490@levanta.com> References: <200510051314.33411.ak@suse.de> <20051005113108.GA19437@parisc-linux.org> <20051005113925.GA11202@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from sleepie-adsl.demon.co.uk ([83.104.228.241]:26046 "EHLO sleepie.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965145AbVJEMc3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 08:32:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005113925.GA11202@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Andi Kleen , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org 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