* status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers
@ 2016-09-11 17:12 Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-11 17:25 ` Ondrej Zary
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2016-09-11 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Finn Thain, Michael Schmitz, Ondrej Zary; +Cc: linux-scsi
Hi all,
you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal. Which frontends to NCR5380
do you test at the moment, or could you test?
NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers still
using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd like to
either move them to this century or to the dust bin.
The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.
Thanks,
Christoph
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* Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers
2016-09-11 17:12 status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers Christoph Hellwig
@ 2016-09-11 17:25 ` Ondrej Zary
2016-09-11 23:52 ` dtc, pas16 and t128 removal, was " Finn Thain
2016-09-12 8:08 ` Michael Schmitz
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From: Ondrej Zary @ 2016-09-11 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: Finn Thain, Michael Schmitz, linux-scsi
On Sunday 11 September 2016 19:12:49 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal. Which frontends to NCR5380
> do you test at the moment, or could you test?
>
> NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers still
> using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd like to
> either move them to this century or to the dust bin.
>
> The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
I have the HW to test g_NCR5380 - it currently works fine as it did never
before.
I started a patch to for scsi_module.c removal (and other good things) but
haven't had time to finish it. Hopefully, it will be ready soon.
--
Ondrej Zary
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* dtc, pas16 and t128 removal, was Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers
2016-09-11 17:12 status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-11 17:25 ` Ondrej Zary
@ 2016-09-11 23:52 ` Finn Thain
2016-09-12 0:29 ` Finn Thain
2016-09-12 8:08 ` Michael Schmitz
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From: Finn Thain @ 2016-09-11 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: Michael Schmitz, Ondrej Zary, linux-scsi
On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal. Which frontends to
> NCR5380 do you test at the moment, or could you test?
I test the dmx3191d and mac_scsi drivers.
>
> NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers
> still using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd
> like to either move them to this century or to the dust bin.
>
> The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.
I don't have any hardware with an ISA slot so I take a best-effort
approach to maintaining those drivers.
I have not heard of anyone actually using dtc, pas16 or t128 so I don't
mind seeing them removed (along with Documentation/scsi/dtc3x80.txt).
BTW, DTC3x80 support (NCR 53C406 chip I believe) should be easy to do in
g_NCR5380, which already supports the DTC3181E card.
--
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
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* Re: dtc, pas16 and t128 removal, was Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers
2016-09-11 23:52 ` dtc, pas16 and t128 removal, was " Finn Thain
@ 2016-09-12 0:29 ` Finn Thain
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From: Finn Thain @ 2016-09-12 0:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: Michael Schmitz, Ondrej Zary, linux-scsi
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, I wrote:
>
> BTW, DTC3x80 support (NCR 53C406 chip I believe) should be easy to do in
> g_NCR5380, which already supports the DTC3181E card.
>
Sorry, I should have written DTC406 chip, which is "supposedly compatible
with the NCR 53C400" but is nothing like a NCR 53C406.
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* Re: status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers
2016-09-11 17:12 status of NCR5380-based ISA drivers Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-11 17:25 ` Ondrej Zary
2016-09-11 23:52 ` dtc, pas16 and t128 removal, was " Finn Thain
@ 2016-09-12 8:08 ` Michael Schmitz
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From: Michael Schmitz @ 2016-09-12 8:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig, Finn Thain, Ondrej Zary; +Cc: linux-scsi
Christoph,
I test the atari_scsi front end - haven't got any ISA cards handy.
Probably no ISA slots on my PC main board either ...
Cheers,
Michael
Am 12.09.2016 um 05:12 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> Hi all,
>
> you seem to the currently active NCR580 cabal. Which frontends to NCR5380
> do you test at the moment, or could you test?
>
> NCR5380-based ISA drivers make up a significant part of those drivers still
> using scsi_module.c after it's 15 year deprecation period, and I'd like to
> either move them to this century or to the dust bin.
>
> The drivers in question are: dtc, g_NCR5380, pas16 and t128.
>
> Thanks,
> Christoph
>
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