mac_esp and PIO, was Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-02-21 Thread Finn Thain
Hi All, At the end of this message is the replacement mac_esp driver I've been working on. It isn't finished but it works fine. The only remaining concerns I have are some of the changes to esp_scsi: firstly I'm hoping that there's a better way to negotiate async transfers, and secondly I'm

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:31:56PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: Is git smart enough to follow history between files that get removed and readded? Yes. git revert on the removal changeset will re-add all the files and try to put the entries back into Kconfig and Makefile. Note that it

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-31 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 07:07 +0100, Kars de Jong wrote: On do, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use of Fixing these

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-31 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 20:55 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 07:07 +0100, Kars de Jong wrote: On do, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu,

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 07:07 +0100, Kars de Jong wrote: On do, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-31 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:55 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 07:07 +0100, Kars de Jong wrote: On do, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-06 Thread Kars de Jong
On do, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much simpler and modern esp

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-04 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I totally object to keeping these things around any longer. And this I support these changes going in. BTW, I hope you do remember why NCR53C9x.[ch] incarnated in the first place... OK, we'll see what we can do... I have a partially

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, David Miller wrote: From: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-04 Thread David Miller
From: Finn Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:05:20 +1100 (EST) I have a partially written replacement for mac_esp. Unlike the other NCR53C9x drivers it needs PIO or pseudo DMA depending on the machine -- so it is not as straight-forward as jazz_esp. The new esp_scsi core

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-04 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, David Miller wrote: From: Finn Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:05:20 +1100 (EST) I have a partially written replacement for mac_esp. Unlike the other NCR53C9x drivers it needs PIO or pseudo DMA depending on the machine -- so it is not as

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-03 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much simpler and modern esp infrastructure with David Miller's esp_scsi - Remove all driver files dependent on NCR53C9x.c

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much simpler and modern esp infrastructure with David Miller's esp_scsi - Remove all

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-03 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much simpler and modern esp

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-03 Thread David Miller
From: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:05:27 +0100 (CET) On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, James Bottomley wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 17:40 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As recommended by Christoph Hellwig. There is no use of Fixing these drivers, since there is a much

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Remove of old NCR53C9x/esp family of drivers

2008-01-03 Thread Michael Schmitz
Hi all, Anybody who can look into converting the m68k NCR53C9x drivers and has hardware to test (some of) them? I don't think we can afford losing one third of our SCSI drivers... I can look into converting some (having worked on the m68k Mac ESP driver in the past - I do recall the Mac