Re: Removing BROKEN scsi drivers

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On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Kars de Jong wrote:
> On wo, 2005-10-05 at 13:32 +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:39:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 05:31:08AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:14:32PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > > SCSI_AMIGA7XX - no maintainer, broken forever
> > > > > MVME16x_SCSI - no maintainer, broken forever
> > > > > BVME6000_SCSI - same
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think there's any point in deleting these.  I'm not even sure
> > > > why they're marked BROKEN.  They share 99% of their code with drivers
> > > > which are working.  And I thought Richard Hirst was maintaining them ...
> > > 
> > > They don't.  All these use the broken and obsolete 53c7xx driver, not
> > > James new 53c700 core.  The driver should be easy to reimplement based
> > > on the 53x700 for someone who has the hardware and cares about it.
> > 
> > I never claimed to maintain the amiga stuff, but you are right that they
> > all use the 53c7xx driver that I originally created.  The sensible thing
> > to do is to migrate those systems to use James 53c700 core, but it seems
> > wise to poll the linux-m68k list before removing them.  I don't do much
> > with my VME hardware these days but I know there have been patches
> > posted for the serial driver recently so maybe someone has the scsi
> > working.
> 
> I have at least the 53c7xx driver and the MVME16X driver working, the
> Amiga and BVME stuff is untested (but does compile).
> 
> I patched the 53c7xx core to get it to work again, but the patch is ugly
> and uses some mid level SCSI driver internals, which it shouldn't. It's
> currently only present in the m68k CVS repository.

Indeed:

http://linux-m68k-cvs.ubb.ca/~geert/linux-m68k-2.6.x-merging/POSTPONED/520-53c7xx.diff

It was rejected upstream because patches for the 53c7xx driver are no longer
accepted. we should use the 53c700 core instead.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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