On Friday 20 November 2015, Finn Thain wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2015, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 06:21:06PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> >
> > > > Not sure what module was being probed here. I presume it was 
> > > > g_NCR5380 or g_NCR5380_mmio. Neither of these calls 
> > > > 'scsi_scan_host'. I'm not sure what the implications are (?)
> > > 
> > > Nevermind. The call is in scsi_module.c.
> > 
> > Which, btw really need to go away.  If you want to resurrect the
> > ISA drivers they need to be converted to proper probing.
> 
> Yes. I didn't do that conversion because I don't have ISA hardware and I 
> don't understand ISA probing.
> 
> The present patch set doesn't seek to resurrect the ISA drivers. But I am 
> trying to avoid regressions.
> 
> I have mixed feelings about the ISA drivers. ISA DMA support complicates 
> things (it was never completed) and DMA seems to be the main obstacle to 
> merging the two core driver forks.

IIRC, my ISA cards can't do DMA either.

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Ondrej Zary
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