Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

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On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 07:07 +0100, Kars de Jong wrote:
> On do, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> I'll have a look at this. I can only test it on Blizzard 1260 hardware
> though.

OK, time's up.

These drivers are now unbuildable in mainline because of the promised
sg_table updates.  They either get removed, fixed or marked as BROKEN.
Which is it to be?

James


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