From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:05:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <477CFC97.2010201@panasas.com> <477D0209.2000609@panasas.com> <1199384189.3122.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from hoefnix.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.54]:52169 "EHLO hoefnix.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752192AbYACTGW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:06:22 -0500 Received: from edna.telenet-ops.be (edna.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.58]) by hoefnix.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5298A00BC for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:06:11 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <1199384189.3122.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Linux/m68k Cc: James Bottomley , Boaz Harrosh , Christoph Hellwig , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , "David S. Miller" , linux-scsi 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 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds