Hi Finn,
I've tested this series thoroughly on my Atari Falcon - no regressions,
runs stable and is quite responsive. No SCSI lock-ups that had plagued
the old driver (before your rewrites).
Please add my
Tested-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx>
Cheers,
Michael
Am 22.12.15 um 14:17 schrieb Finn Thain:
> Like my previous work on the NCR5380 drivers, this patch series has bug
> fixes, code cleanup and modernization. These drivers suffer from mistakes,
> poor style and neglect and this long series addresses the worst of it,
> covering all ten wrapper drivers and both of the core driver forks. The
> combined size of the drivers is reduced by over 700 LoC.
>
> This series continues to reduce divergence between the two core driver
> forks, often by copying a bug fix from one to the other. Most patches are
> larger for having to keep the two forks in sync. Making the same change to
> both is churn if one of them is to be removed but neither can be as yet.
> By the end of this series the diff between the two forks is minimal, so it
> becomes clear what caused the fork and what can be done about it.
>
> This patch series did benefit from scripts/checkpatch.pl but not too much.
> Decades ago, these drivers started out with 4-space tabs and if the 80
> column limit were to be strictly enforced now, it would require adding new
> functions and shortening identifiers. I would defer this sort of activity
> until after the fork has been resolved.
>
> All patches to all NCR5380 drivers (x86, ARM, m68k) have been compile-
> tested. The mac_scsi, dmx3191d, g_NCR5380 and atari_scsi modules were
> regression tested on suitable hardware.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Patch 8 omits a pointless assignment.
> - Patch 10 gets a better error message.
> - Patch 20 drops the WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag.
> - Patch 21 adds timing calibration for the register polling loop.
> - Patch 49 is replaced by a new one that removes FLAG_DTC3181E.
> - Patch 72 by Ondrej Zary was added to fix pseudo DMA on 53C400.
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Patch 21 has better calibration with low HZ values.
> - Patch 57 no longer attempts to dereference a NULL pointer on Atari.
> - Patch 66 initializes max_sectors in the host templates.
> - Patches 73 thru 77 by Ondrej Zary were added with additional fixes for
> 53C400-compatible cards.
>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 17
> drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c | 2868 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> drivers/scsi/NCR5380.h | 87 -
> drivers/scsi/arm/cumana_1.c | 31
> drivers/scsi/arm/oak.c | 27
> drivers/scsi/atari_NCR5380.c | 2292 +++++++++++++++-------------------
> drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.c | 102 -
> drivers/scsi/dmx3191d.c | 33
> drivers/scsi/dtc.c | 115 -
> drivers/scsi/dtc.h | 45
> drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c | 408 +++---
> drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.h | 66
> drivers/scsi/mac_scsi.c | 117 -
> drivers/scsi/pas16.c | 116 -
> drivers/scsi/pas16.h | 40
> drivers/scsi/sun3_scsi.c | 141 --
> drivers/scsi/t128.c | 102 -
> drivers/scsi/t128.h | 39
> 18 files changed, 2957 insertions(+), 3689 deletions(-)
>
>
>
>
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