From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ulrich Schweitzer <us-@gmx.de>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 10226] BusLogic Flashpoint SCSI Adapter not working with x86_64 kernels
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:11:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080313171135.GL613@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080313164537.GA21995@infradead.org>
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.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-10226-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2008-03-11 20:44 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 10226] New: BusLogic Flashpoint SCSI Adapter not working with x86_64 kernels Andrew Morton
2008-03-12 11:03 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-12 18:20 ` Ulrich Schweitzer
2008-03-12 18:36 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-12 18:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-12 19:02 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-12 20:25 ` Ulrich Schweitzer
2008-03-12 21:35 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-13 6:09 ` Ulrich Schweitzer
2008-03-13 12:55 ` [Bug 10226] " Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-13 16:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-13 17:11 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-03-13 17:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-03-12 11:29 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 10226] New: " James Bottomley
[not found] <bug-10226-11613@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2008-03-12 19:03 ` [Bug 10226] " bugme-daemon
2008-03-12 20:26 ` bugme-daemon
2008-03-12 21:36 ` bugme-daemon
2008-03-13 6:10 ` bugme-daemon
2008-03-13 12:55 ` bugme-daemon
2008-03-13 16:46 ` bugme-daemon
2008-03-13 17:12 ` bugme-daemon
2008-03-13 17:16 ` bugme-daemon
2009-03-26 17:04 ` bugzilla-daemon
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080313171135.GL613@parisc-linux.org \
--to=matthew@wil.cx \
--cc=James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=bharrosh@panasas.com \
--cc=bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org \
--cc=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=us-@gmx.de \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox