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

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On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 03:42:19PM +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> That's the problem: The driver as-is works in all of the use cases, so
> no-one has any motivation to fix it.  Plus the complexity is pretty
> daunting.  It's not even the worst driver we have (that prize goes to
> atp870u which still has internal bus scanning code).  I'm not saying
> don't do the conversion, but I am saying it will have to be validated
> and tested before it can go in because lots of people still seem to use
> this family of devices in odd corners of the world.

The split itself actually is really easy - every single method has
a "if (ASC_NARROW_BOARD(boardp)) { ... } else { ... }" so the
code actually is separate.  But now that we have Hannes interested
in the wide side, and also a tester for the the narrow side I think we're
fine anyway.
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