* Is anyone using ACARD/ARTOP SCSI cards?
@ 2026-09-11 4:18 Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-09-17 1:47 ` Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)
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From: Ethan Nelson-Moore @ 2026-09-11 4:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-scsi
Hi, everyone,
drivers/scsi/atp870u.c is almost impossible to understand, and thus
unmaintainable, because it uses magic numbers for all access to
hardware registers. I would guess that this was done intentionally in
a misguided attempt at IP protection. Is anyone using ACARD/ARTOP SCSI
cards? If not, the driver should probably just be removed. What do the
maintainers think?
Ethan
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* Re: Is anyone using ACARD/ARTOP SCSI cards?
2026-09-11 4:18 Is anyone using ACARD/ARTOP SCSI cards? Ethan Nelson-Moore
@ 2026-09-17 1:47 ` Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)
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From: Martin K. Petersen (Oracle) @ 2026-09-17 1:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ethan Nelson-Moore; +Cc: linux-scsi
Ethan,
> drivers/scsi/atp870u.c is almost impossible to understand, and thus
> unmaintainable, because it uses magic numbers for all access to
> hardware registers. I would guess that this was done intentionally in
> a misguided attempt at IP protection. Is anyone using ACARD/ARTOP SCSI
> cards? If not, the driver should probably just be removed. What do the
> maintainers think?
My last user contact was about a decade ago. I suspect we can probably
retire this.
However, undocumented hardware interface aside, the driver is simple
enough that it hasn't been much of a maintenance burden.
--
Martin K. Petersen
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