Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

From: James Bottomley
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 20:08:21 EST


On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix
> > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have
> > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based
> > but don't use the scsi_esp core (that's mostly m68k and alpha). Plus
> > the usual bunch of driver updates and the addition of a new enclosure
> > services driver and the corresponding ULD.
> >
> > The patch is available from:
> >
>
> I'm going to guess that this is the entry in feature-removal.txt
> that need an update then:
>
> ---------------------------
>
> What: old NCR53C9x driver
> When: October 2007
> Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
> driver can be ported over almost trivially.
> Who: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Not immediately ... I anticipate a few "where'd my driver go?" type
questions from m68k for which this provides a useful reference to point
to ...

James


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