Re: [PATCH 00/10] Re-implement am53c974 driver

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On 11/21/2014 11:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:27:47AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> having found some issues with the current tmscsim driver
>> I looked at the code and found is really awkward to clean
>> up.
>> Seeing that the am53c974 chip is actually based on the
>> 'ESP' chip design I've re-implemented it based on the
>> common esp_scsi routines. This new driver
>> (cunningly named 'am53c974') provides all features
>> found on the tmscsim driver, with the goal of obsoleting
>> the old tmscsim driver.
>> Tested with Tekram DC390 and qemu esp-scsi.
> 
> This looks very nice!
> 
> Three high level comments:
> 
>  - please Cc Dave for changes to esp_scsi
That's what I thought, too, but 'get_maintainers.pl' doesn't
know about him. Maybe we should fix this up ...

>  - please Cc Guennadi as the tmscsim maintainer
>  - this probably should deprecated and/or remove the tmscsim driver
> 
That was the general idea. I just thought to be conservative and
add a new driver. But yeah, the idea is to sent another patch
to remove tmscsim altogether.

Cheers,

Hannes
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