From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hancock.sc.steeleye.com (nat9.steeleye.com [65.114.3.137]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C1F482D for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 16:20:00 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mulgrave-w.il.steeleye.com (il-ppp.sc.steeleye.com [172.17.6.240]) by hancock.sc.steeleye.com (8.11.6/linuxconf) with ESMTP id h4EMJSI25092; Wed, 14 May 2003 18:19:28 -0400 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] sym53c8xx.c From: James Bottomley To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: <20030514215849.GK6859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030514215849.GK6859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: 14 May 2003 17:19:27 -0500 Message-Id: <1052950768.3430.32.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 16:58, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > The sym53c8xx driver is near to being removed from 2.6. Can anyone think > of a situation where we might still want it? I'm concerned that maybe > some of the fixes didn't go into the sym53c8xx_2 driver. In particular, > I'd like to know that the sym53c8xx_2 driver in 2.5 works on C3k (wide & > narrow!) and A500. Just to clarify the plans: NCR53C8XX and SYM53C8XX will be removed as CONFIG_ options. ncr53c8xx.c will continue to exist for Zalon (and has already been revamped for the new error handling). the SYM_2 will become the only selectable self compiling driver. James