On Friday 20 November 2015, Finn Thain wrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 07:19:21PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
Yes. I didn't do that conversion because I don't have ISA hardware and
I don't understand ISA probing.
The present patch set doesn't seek to resurrect the ISA drivers. But I
am trying to avoid regressions.
I have mixed feelings about the ISA drivers. ISA DMA support
complicates things (it was never completed) and DMA seems to be the
main obstacle to merging the two core driver forks.
I'd love to be able to get rid of the ISA drivers to be honest.
Is that because of their use of scsi_module.c or their general decrepitude
or something else?
scsi_module.c usage shouldn't be hard to fix. I can do that after finding a working setup.
Given that they appear to be gravely broken before your cleanups this
might be an opportunity to get rid of them.
At this stage, that's unclear (to me). It could be that g_NCR5380.c is not
broken. It could be that the core driver can't handle certain targets. I
think we need to do more testing.
Maybe I was just unlucky and tested a drive that never worked with this driver.
Working ISA means more testing possibilities. It's much easier to get an ISA card than a Sun or Atari. Also faster CPU (such as 1 GHz P3) means quicker testing.
--
Ondrej Zary
--
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
