Re: [Bug 10226] BusLogic Flashpoint SCSI Adapter not working with x86_64 kernels

Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-13T17:16:24Z

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:11:35AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:45:37PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:55:08AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > How does this look? I've inverted the sense of the flashpoint config
> > > option and neatened up the PCI-less support while I was there.
> >
> > I think it's a good start. Long-term flashpoint should either die or
> > become a driver of it's own - these cards have very little in common
> > with the regular intelligent buslogic cards and if you look at the
> > driver it's full of if (flashpoint) in every major function.
>
> Completely agreed about the long term direction.
>
> I'm not volunteering to work on this particular obsolescent driver
> though. Advansys is quite enough trouble for me.

Yes, that's why I said your patch is a good start :) Anything more than
that is not required although it would of course be nice if we could
find someone with too much spare time on his/her hand to fix the driver
up.

Actually a proper driver for the multimaster adapters wouldn't even be
a lot of time as this hardware is quite nice (unlike the driver).