Remove support for EATA and EATA-PIO SCSI host adapters.
These devices are ancient and, apparently, nobody is still
using them.
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313090540.GA4810%20()%20infradead%20!%20org
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca
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Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.txt |2
2018-03-13 10:05 GMT+01:00 Christoph Hellwig :
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:35:36PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>> No objections to Salvatore's patch but I have a slight affinity for
>> retiring unused code over patching it. So unless there are objections...
>
> Lets kill it. And the not DMA
Avoid 3 VLAs[1] by using a single dinamically allocated array
and some helper variables: we don't need 3 arrays.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca
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drivers/scsi/eata.c | 40 ++--
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+
2018-03-12 13:48 GMT+01:00 Salvatore Mesoraca :
> Avoid 3 VLAs[1] by using a single dinamically allocated array
> and some helper variables: we don't need 3 arrays.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca
> ---
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Avoid 3 VLAs[1] by using a single dinamically allocated array
and some helper variables: we don't need 3 arrays.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca
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drivers/scsi/eata.c | 40 ++--
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+
2018-03-12 4:08 GMT+01:00 Tobin C. Harding :
> Adding kernel newbies to CC because I pose a few noob questions :)
> Adding Linus to CC because I quoted him.
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:06:58PM +0100, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote:
>> n_ready will always be less than or equal to MA
n_ready will always be less than or equal to MAX_MAILBOXES.
So we avoid a VLA[1] and use fixed-length arrays instead.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca
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drivers/scsi/eata.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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