From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ondrej Zary Subject: Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers? Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 23:27:28 +0100 Message-ID: <201501062327.28830.linux@rainbow-software.org> References: <20141230160616.GA29149@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-1.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.57]:47045 "EHLO mail-1.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751571AbbAFW2D (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:28:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20141230160616.GA29149@infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Miroslav Zagorac , Dario Ballabio On Tuesday 30 December 2014 17:06:16 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > We've got a few very old, isa-only SCSI HBA drivers in the tree. Of > those only one (aha152x) sas significant maintaince since the dawn > of git, all others only saw global / automatic updates. 4 of those > are fairly trivial wrappers aroudn the NCR538 core, so I don't mind > keeping them: > > - dtc > - g_NCR5380 > - pas16 > - t128 > > but I'd love to know if anyone is actually using the other drivers: > > - wd7000 > - aha1542 > - in2000 > - NCR53c406 > - sym53c416 > - u14-34f > - ultrastor > > note that the last two even drive the same hardware. There is > significant cruft in all these, so dropping them would help > further maintainance of the SCSI midlayer. I think I have a AHA-1542B ISA card so I can fix the aha1542 driver. -- Ondrej Zary