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-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
