On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > In principle I think that Linux drivers should not carry workarounds > > for emulators. > > Please consider ARAnyM is the current m68k workhorse, so it would be > nice to handle this someway.
AFAICT atari_scsi on aranym never did anything useful. Those aranym users who need to run Linux 4.5 can set CONFIG_ATARI_SCSI=n or blacklist the atari_scsi module (up until aranym can be patched). > > Alternatively, we need to fix ARAnyM, I'll look into writing a patch for the emulator after I've finished testing the exception handling fixes for the driver. > or can make the creation of the atari_scsi platform device conditional > on not running under ARAnyM. Fixing the emulator is the only sensible approach. If S operating systems have to carry workarounds for B emulator bugs, the cost is (at least) proportional to S * B. --
