Hi all,
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...
I can look into converting some (having worked on the m68k Mac ESP driver in the past - I do recall the Mac driver needs special hacks so it won't be the easiest one to convert). I have no hardware to test these on, however.
You can use the following as guidance: commit 5ff263667798946abc15314eae3f341345877d7a Author: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
Hasn't this come up before on linux-m68k? Someone asked me for information when converting the Mac driver, I think. That could be a good start.
I can also offer help to anyone who tries this. It's also a good opportunity to let die drivers that have no committed users.
I'll contact you about this, then.
Just to be clear on why we're doing this: the NCR53C9x driver on which these are all based is in a pretty horrendous state of repair. The esp_scsi one is much nicer, actually nicely tested and has a host of features the old driver didn't. However, the principle driving force is the conversion of the SCSI subsystem to the sg_list accessors. esp_scsi is already coverted. NCR53C9x looks like a nasty job. Thus, the moment the conversion patch goes in, all your drivers will break. However,
Hmm, does that also affect another of the m68k drivers, the 5380 one? More headache for me... Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
