Re: [PATCH 00/12] nobody loves the advansys driver

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On Wednesday 03 December 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Thanks for looking into this old driver.
>
> If you've got a few spare cycles it might make sense to simply split
> the "wide board" support out - the driver literally is two different
> drivers with an if/else section in every method for the totally
> different narrow vs wide boards.  Having at least a clean and simple
> driver for the newer wide boards would be good, and narrow ones are
> probably old enough that we can let the driver for those fade away..

I have an ASB-3940UA (bought around 2000) and use it for scanner so I can test 
patches.
The driver was working fine so I never had to look at the code. Now I see that 
it's 12K lines long :( Converting that to something simple would require a 
lot of work.

-- 
Ondrej Zary
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