linux-kernel - Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:30:13 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	Kars de Jong <jongk@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_AMIGA7XX driver

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The SCSI_AMIGA7XX driver:
> - has been marked as BROKEN for more than two years and
> - is still marked as BROKEN.
> 
> Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
> unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

There's a fix available to convert this driver to the new 53c700 core.
But it needs the new DMA framework, which still causes a few regressions on
m68k that are being worked on.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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