From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ondrej Zary Subject: Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers? Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 20:44:30 +0100 Message-ID: <201501092044.30710.linux@rainbow-software.org> References: <20141230160616.GA29149@infradead.org> <201501062327.28830.linux@rainbow-software.org> <20150107143432.GA6542@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]:48244 "EHLO mail-1.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755781AbbAITpC (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2015 14:45:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150107143432.GA6542@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 On Wednesday 07 January 2015 15:34:32 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:27:28PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > > 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. > > Can you simply test that it even works for now? If that's the case > add yourself to MAINTAINERS for it, and and convert it away from using > scsi_module.c as a start so that we get rid of the 10 year deprecated > old-style host registration. Yes, it still works in 3.19-rc3: [ 691.940019] Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at IO:330, IRQ 11, DMA priority 7 [ 691.942063] scsi host2: Adaptec 1542 [ 691.943474] bounce: isa pool size: 16 pages [ 691.956495] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access IBM DORS-32160 WA0A PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 693.540016] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 4226725 512-byte logical blocks: (2.16 GB/2.01 GiB) [ 693.571820] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 693.571911] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: b3 00 00 08 [ 693.587551] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 693.590061] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 693.593491] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 693.721206] sdb: sdb1 [ 693.856355] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk -- Ondrej Zary