Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use
> >  of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much simpler
> >  and modern esp infrastructure with David Miller's esp_scsi
> > 
> >   - Remove all driver files dependent on NCR53C9x.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.h
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/blz1230.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/blz2060.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/cyberstorm.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/cyberstormII.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/dec_esp.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/fastlane.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/mac_esp.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/mca_53c9x.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/oktagon_esp.c
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/oktagon_io.S
> >         deleted:    drivers/scsi/sun3x_esp.c
> > 
> >   - Remove above list from drivers/scsi/Kconfig &&
> > drivers/scsi/Makefile
> 
> OK, I'll split this into four pieces for scsi-pending, since there are
> three separate interest groups with signoffs to collect (MCA, m68k and
> alpha) plus the core removal.

Anybody who can look into converting the m68k NCR53C9x drivers and has
hardware to test (some of) them? I don't think we can afford losing one
third of our SCSI drivers...

You can use the following as guidance:

commit 5ff263667798946abc15314eae3f341345877d7a
Author: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Tue May 22 17:03:44 2007 -0700

    [SCSI] jazz_esp: Converted to use esp_core.
        
	    Use new esp_scsi for JAZZ SCSI host adapter driver

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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