Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:42:02 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Advansys SCSI driver and 2.6.16 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > There have been no changes in the advansys driver since November 2005, and > nothing substantial in over a year.
The advansys driver has been disabled for two years - since 2.6.8:
> ChangeSet@1.497.4282.43, 2004-06-26 10:50:12-05:00, jejb@mulgrave.(none) > advansys: add warning and convert #includes > > The DMA conversion of the advansys driver is still > broken. Add a #warning to the driver and a comment > above it explaining what needs to be done. > > Mark the driver as BROKEN because of the warning > > Also remove the #include "scsi.h" > > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> >
So I don't know how you managed to get it to build in 2.6.15.
You can reenable it with:
--- devel/drivers/scsi/Kconfig~a 2006-04-19 22:39:51.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2006-04-19 22:40:00.000000000 -0700 @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ config SCSI_DPT_I2O config SCSI_ADVANSYS tristate "AdvanSys SCSI support" - depends on (ISA || EISA || PCI) && SCSI && BROKEN + depends on (ISA || EISA || PCI) && SCSI help This is a driver for all SCSI host adapters manufactured by AdvanSys. It is documented in the kernel source in _ and it does compile. Does it actually work? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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