Re: [PATCH 00/71] More fixes, cleanup and modernization for NCR5380 drivers

[Finn Thain]

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?

> 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.

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