On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 06:47:27PM +0000, Matt Dainty wrote: > To get the arcmsr driver working with CentOS/RHEL 4 and using the > facility to build kernel modules outside of the kernel source tree, I > found the attached patch was necessary to remove the dependencies on the > internal drivers/scsi/scsi*.h header files and to instead use the public > ones found under include/scsi/ which are provided by the kernel-*-devel > packages. > > It builds, loads and appears to work with my limited testing on an > ARC1120. I was just wanting to know if this was the right way to fix it? > Once the driver is in the main kernel tree it's largely irrelevant, but > while CentOS/RHEL 4 use the older kernel without the driver it's a PITA > to maintain kernel packages with this one driver added, when a separate > package containing just the driver is much easier. > > The patch is based on the 1.20.00.06 driver that was added to > 2.6.11-mm4.
Patch looks good, scsi.h is deprecated for a long time and I told Erich to stop using it already. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
