On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > From what I understand, (And again I do not), the ESP sounds a lot like > the NCR5380. I would craft a very similar copy of the new ESP stack, > with it's central library and function-vector registration, The > scsi-generic part is all there, in full glory. Then one concentrated > effort should go into the basic/general chip programing, which lots of > it could be ripped from current code, and the different platform > implementation becomes one liners, if the new ESP stack is any > indication. I still do not understand the whole ESP driver but when I wrote mac_esp.c I learned the value of the layered structure it provided. I still have a lot to learn about the SCSI layers and the APIs too. I'm reading Documentation/scsi at the moment. If you know of any other introductory reading material, that would be a help. > From my passed experience, there becomes a source code state when a > rewrite is less effort then any cleanup or enhancements. From the small > changes I had to do to the xxx_NCR5380 family of drivers, my guts > feeling scream "rewrite", so here I voice them. In the mid/long-term you > will work much less. And be much more satisfied from the results. This makes sense. Thanks for your feedback. Finn > > Good lock > Boaz > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- 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
