Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:16:08 -0200 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [tested PATCH] 2.5.2-pre7 advansys SCSI adapter driver |
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Em Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:50:38AM -0500, Douglas Gilbert escreveu:
> Changes were added in lk 2.5.2-pre7 to the advansys SCSI adapter driver > that let it compile. It would seem that the author didn't have any > appropriate hardware to check the driver (since it dies almost > immediately and takes the machine with it). > > This patch http://www.torque.net/sg/p/sg252p7.diff.gz > will hopefully make the advansys driver useful again. > It is not perfect but it: > - runs on a Athlon UP box > - runs on a dual Celeron SMP box > - is running the machine that sent this post > I have been running variations of this patch for the last > 3 weeks and it has been sent to Linus and the lkml before. > > Perhaps those helpful people who send speculative fixes to Linus could > mark them clearly as "untested".
That was the case. I said that it didn't had the board. But I planned to get one that Riel has on his test (iirc) machine to test the patch. Now you have fixed it, thanks.
I'll take a look at your patch and see if with your changes the scsi_assign_lock patch that probably will appear in pre8 is still needed for the advansys driver.
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