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authorFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>2016-03-23 13:10:10 +0300
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2016-04-11 23:57:09 +0300
commit9d376402c80cfe2356d84577d366ca790e576bd9 (patch)
tree83b3b800e6866c22c161df43e188a6e4be73ae74 /drivers/scsi/Kconfig
parente1f0bce3a0db95007fec756225801e50477f32fd (diff)
downloadlinux-9d376402c80cfe2356d84577d366ca790e576bd9.tar.xz
g_ncr5380: Remove CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400
This change brings a number of improvements: fewer macros, better test coverage, simpler code and sane Kconfig options. The downside is a small chance of incompatibility (which seems unavoidable). CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 exists to enable or inhibit pseudo DMA transfers when the driver is used with 53C400-compatible cards. Thanks to Ondrej Zary's patches, PDMA now works which means it can be enabled unconditionally. Due to bad design, CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 ties together unrelated functionality as it sets both PSEUDO_DMA and BIOSPARAM macros. This patch effectively enables PSEUDO_DMA and disables BIOSPARAM. The defconfigs and the Kconfig default leave CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 undefined. Red Hat 9 and CentOS 2.1 were the same. This leaves both PSEUDO_DMA and BIOSPARAM disabled. The effect of this patch should be better performance from enabling PSEUDO_DMA. On the other hand, Debian 4 and SLES 10 had CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400 enabled, so both PSEUDO_DMA and BIOSPARAM were enabled. This patch might affect configurations like this by disabling BIOSPARAM. My best guess is that this could be a problem only in the vanishingly rare case that 1) the CHS values stored in the boot device partition table are wrong and 2) a 5380 card is in use (because PDMA on 53C400 used to be broken). Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Tested-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/Kconfig')
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diff --git a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
index 47611bda633f..0950567e6269 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -813,17 +813,6 @@ config SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380_MMIO
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called g_NCR5380_mmio.
-config SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400
- bool "Enable NCR53c400 extensions"
- depends on SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380
- help
- This enables certain optimizations for the NCR53c400 SCSI cards.
- You might as well try it out. Note that this driver will only probe
- for the Trantor T130B in its default configuration; you might have
- to pass a command line option to the kernel at boot time if it does
- not detect your card. See the file
- <file:Documentation/scsi/g_NCR5380.txt> for details.
-
config SCSI_IPS
tristate "IBM ServeRAID support"
depends on PCI && SCSI