On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> 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?
Is git smart enough to follow history between files that get removed and
readded?
If yes, I think you can remove them.
If no, please mark them as BROKEN.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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