From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Bug 10226] BusLogic Flashpoint SCSI Adapter not working with x86_64 kernels Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:15:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20080313171534.GA2496@infradead.org> References: <200803122125.50161.us-@gmx.de> <1205357733.2941.160.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200803130709.44066.us-@gmx.de> <20080313125508.GF613@parisc-linux.org> <20080313164537.GA21995@infradead.org> <20080313171135.GL613@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48676 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754293AbYCMRQY (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:16:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080313171135.GL613@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Ulrich Schweitzer , James Bottomley , Boaz Harrosh , Andrew Morton , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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).