On Friday 20 November 2015, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 07:19:21PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > > Yes. I didn't do that conversion because I don't have ISA hardware and > > > I don't understand ISA probing. > > > > > > The present patch set doesn't seek to resurrect the ISA drivers. But I > > > am trying to avoid regressions. > > > > > > I have mixed feelings about the ISA drivers. ISA DMA support > > > complicates things (it was never completed) and DMA seems to be the > > > main obstacle to merging the two core driver forks. > > > > I'd love to be able to get rid of the ISA drivers to be honest. > > Is that because of their use of scsi_module.c or their general decrepitude > or something else? scsi_module.c usage shouldn't be hard to fix. I can do that after finding a working setup. > > Given that they appear to be gravely broken before your cleanups this > > might be an opportunity to get rid of them. > > At this stage, that's unclear (to me). It could be that g_NCR5380.c is not > broken. It could be that the core driver can't handle certain targets. I > think we need to do more testing. Maybe I was just unlucky and tested a drive that never worked with this driver. Working ISA means more testing possibilities. It's much easier to get an ISA card than a Sun or Atari. Also faster CPU (such as 1 GHz P3) means quicker testing. -- Ondrej Zary -- 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
