From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hirst Subject: Re: Removing BROKEN scsi drivers Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:42:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20051007134232.GA6490@levanta.com> References: <200510051314.33411.ak@suse.de> <20051005113108.GA19437@parisc-linux.org> <20051005113925.GA11202@infradead.org> <20051005123220.GB6490@levanta.com> <1128519034.5063.10.camel@laptop-lcs.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from sleepie-adsl.demon.co.uk ([83.104.228.241]:25749 "EHLO sleepie.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932569AbVJGNml (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:42:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Kars de Jong , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Matthew Wilcox , Christoph Hellwig On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 10:27:09AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Kars de Jong wrote: > > On wo, 2005-10-05 at 13:32 +0100, Richard Hirst wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I have at least the 53c7xx driver and the MVME16X driver working, the > > Amiga and BVME stuff is untested (but does compile). > > > > I patched the 53c7xx core to get it to work again, but the patch is ugly > > and uses some mid level SCSI driver internals, which it shouldn't. It's > > currently only present in the m68k CVS repository. > > Indeed: > > http://linux-m68k-cvs.ubb.ca/~geert/linux-m68k-2.6.x-merging/POSTPONED/520-53c7xx.diff > > It was rejected upstream because patches for the 53c7xx driver are no longer > accepted. we should use the 53c700 core instead. Yep; I'll find time later this month to look at switching to use 53c700. Richard > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html