Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:40:28 -0400 | From | Doug Ledford <> | Subject | Re: scsi_reset requirement questions |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Huh? Explain please. When Linus and myself updated the various SCSI drivers > > we took this into account. Most of the drivers never did a damn thing in the > > I think they are from fixes to SMP errors made during the 2.1.x fast update > where people also 'overfixed' reset
It's entirely possible.
> > reset routines, so those were easy: > > > > return(SCSI_RESET_SNOOZE); > > > > But in the other cases, we tried to make sure things were done right. What > > exactly are you referring to? > > eata_dma is broken > aha152x is broken > > (and both are now fixed). Aha152x at least is a bug introduced when the driver > was overhauled to fix the errors introduced in the "quick fix" phase during > 2.1.x. Unfortunately aha152x has no maintainer and Adaptec don't seem to want > to be helpful on getting more copies of the docs out.
That's because the 152x driver is A) gross and B) I didn't have the time to decipher it back then and C) Adaptec doesn't have the docs any more because they quit printing them and all their hardcopies are gone.
-- Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's.
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