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From: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:07:40 +0100
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On do, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > > As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use
> > >  of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much simpler
> > >  and modern esp infrastructure with David Miller's esp_scsi
> > > 
> > >   - Remove all driver files dependent on NCR53C9x.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.h
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/blz1230.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/blz2060.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/cyberstorm.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/cyberstormII.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/dec_esp.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/fastlane.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/mac_esp.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/oktagon_esp.c
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/oktagon_io.S
> > >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/sun3x_esp.c
> > > 
> > >   - Remove above list from drivers/scsi/Kconfig &&
> > > drivers/scsi/Makefile
> > 
> > OK, I'll split this into four pieces for scsi-pending, since there are
> > three separate interest groups with signoffs to collect (MCA, m68k and
> > alpha) plus the core removal.
> 
> Anybody who can look into converting the m68k NCR53C9x drivers and has
> hardware to test (some of) them? I don't think we can afford losing one
> third of our SCSI drivers...

I'll have a look at this. I can only test it on Blizzard 1260 hardware
though.


Kind regards,

Kars.