From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:05:27 +0100 (CET) > 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. I totally object to keeping these things around any longer. And this I support these changes going in. Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
