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: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 10:59:35 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <477D0209.2000609@panasas.com> <1199384189.3122.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080103.150204.101269827.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from yergi.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.36]:41724 "EHLO yergi.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753676AbYADKAN (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 05:00:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080103.150204.101269827.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, bharrosh@panasas.com, hch@infradead.org, macro@linux-mips.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Geert Uytterhoeven > > 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... > > We can't wait forever, and effort spent maintaining the old > rotting drivers is effort that should instead be spent on > the converted new drivers. > > Instead of seeing conversions being written, we've been hearing this > swan song from the m68k crowd forever, it's getting quite old. quite old == the new esp_scsi arrived in April 2007. On the m68k timescale, this is just a split-second ago. Following this logic, it's a surprise OSS hasn't been removed completely ;-) > I totally object to keeping these things around any longer. And this > I support these changes going in. BTW, I hope you do remember why NCR53C9x.[ch] incarnated in the first place... OK, we'll see what we can do... 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