From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Re-implement am53c974 driver Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:33:35 +0100 Message-ID: <546F14FF.3080509@suse.de> References: <1416562077-105715-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <20141121102639.GA31016@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48454 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755226AbaKUKdi (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:33:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20141121102639.GA31016@lst.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: James Bottomley , Paolo Bonzini , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, Guennadi Liakhovetski On 11/21/2014 11:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:27:47AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> having found some issues with the current tmscsim driver >> I looked at the code and found is really awkward to clean >> up. >> Seeing that the am53c974 chip is actually based on the >> 'ESP' chip design I've re-implemented it based on the >> common esp_scsi routines. This new driver >> (cunningly named 'am53c974') provides all features >> found on the tmscsim driver, with the goal of obsoleting >> the old tmscsim driver. >> Tested with Tekram DC390 and qemu esp-scsi. >=20 > This looks very nice! >=20 > Three high level comments: >=20 > - please Cc Dave for changes to esp_scsi That's what I thought, too, but 'get_maintainers.pl' doesn't know about him. Maybe we should fix this up ... > - please Cc Guennadi as the tmscsim maintainer > - this probably should deprecated and/or remove the tmscsim driver >=20 That was the general idea. I just thought to be conservative and add a new driver. But yeah, the idea is to sent another patch to remove tmscsim altogether. Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imend=F6rffer, HRB 21284 (AG N=FCrnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html