Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2016-09-11 Thread Ondrej Zary
On Sunday 11 September 2016 19:01:55 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:52:53PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > > - wd7000 > > > - aha1542 > > > - in2000 > > > - NCR53c406 > > > - sym53c416 > > > - u14-34f > > > - ultrastor > > > > NCR53c406a and sym53c416 look very

Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2016-09-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:52:53PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > - wd7000 > > - aha1542 > > - in2000 > > - NCR53c406 > > - sym53c416 > > - u14-34f > > - ultrastor > > NCR53c406a and sym53c416 look very similar. The register numbers and commands > are almost the same so NCR53c406 support

Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2015-04-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:52:53PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: NCR53c406a and sym53c416 look very similar. The register numbers and commands are almost the same so NCR53c406 support could probably be added to sym53c416 driver (looks better of the two) and NCR53c406a driver removed. Now I have

Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2015-03-25 Thread Ondrej Zary
On Tuesday 30 December 2014 17:06:16 Christoph Hellwig wrote: We've got a few very old, isa-only SCSI HBA drivers in the tree. Of those only one (aha152x) sas significant maintaince since the dawn of git, all others only saw global / automatic updates. 4 of those are fairly trivial wrappers

Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2015-01-09 Thread Ondrej Zary
On Wednesday 07 January 2015 15:34:32 Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:27:28PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: note that the last two even drive the same hardware. There is significant cruft in all these, so dropping them would help further maintainance of the SCSI

Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2015-01-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:27:28PM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: note that the last two even drive the same hardware. There is significant cruft in all these, so dropping them would help further maintainance of the SCSI midlayer. I think I have a AHA-1542B ISA card so I can fix the aha1542

Re: RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2015-01-06 Thread Ondrej Zary
On Tuesday 30 December 2014 17:06:16 Christoph Hellwig wrote: We've got a few very old, isa-only SCSI HBA drivers in the tree. Of those only one (aha152x) sas significant maintaince since the dawn of git, all others only saw global / automatic updates. 4 of those are fairly trivial wrappers

RFC: should we deprecate unmaintained isa-only drivers?

2014-12-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
We've got a few very old, isa-only SCSI HBA drivers in the tree. Of those only one (aha152x) sas significant maintaince since the dawn of git, all others only saw global / automatic updates. 4 of those are fairly trivial wrappers aroudn the NCR538 core, so I don't mind keeping them: - dtc -