Applied, thanks. 

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:01:05PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> (resend)
> Patch below taken from RHEL3 Update 4 kernel 2.4.21-27.EL, fixes a bug
> in the aic79xx and aic7xxx drivers, where upon trying to pause the
> controller chip, it is accidentally hard-reset.  This causes PCI
> Parity errors to appear on Dell PowerEdge 4600 servers as the inb()
> immediately after accidental reset receives corrupted data.
> 
> Patch was submitted by Justin Gibbs many moons ago, but never applied
> to mainline 2.4.  It's in mainlin 2.6.  Marcelo, please apply.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> -- 
> Matt Domsch
> Software Architect
> Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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> 
> diff -urNp --exclude-from=/home/mdomsch/excludes --minimal ./aic79xx_pci.c 
> /home/mdomsch/kernels/linux-2.4.21-27.EL/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_pci.c
> --- ./aic79xx_pci.c   Fri Feb 18 14:38:22 2005
> +++ linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_pci.c  Wed Dec  1 20:49:28 2004
> @@ -451,8 +457,10 @@ ahd_pci_test_register_access(struct ahd_
>        * or read prefetching could be initiated by the
>        * CPU or host bridge.  Our device does not support
>        * either, so look for data corruption and/or flaged
> -      * PCI errors.
> +      * PCI errors.  First pause without causing another
> +      * chip reset.
>        */
> +     hcntrl &= ~CHIPRST;
>       ahd_outb(ahd, HCNTRL, hcntrl|PAUSE);
>       while (ahd_is_paused(ahd) == 0)
>               ;
> diff -urNp --exclude-from=/home/mdomsch/excludes --minimal ./aic7xxx_pci.c 
> /home/mdomsch/kernels/linux-2.4.21-27.EL/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_pci.c
> --- ./aic7xxx_pci.c   Fri Feb 18 14:38:22 2005
> +++ 
> /home/mdomsch/kernels/linux-2.4.21-27.EL/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_pci.c   
>     Wed Dec  1 20:49:28 2004
> @@ -1284,8 +1284,10 @@ ahc_pci_test_register_access(struct ahc_
>        * or read prefetching could be initiated by the
>        * CPU or host bridge.  Our device does not support
>        * either, so look for data corruption and/or flagged
> -      * PCI errors.
> +      * PCI errors.  First pause without causing another
> +      * chip reset.
>        */
> +     hcntrl &= ~CHIPRST;
>       ahc_outb(ahc, HCNTRL, hcntrl|PAUSE);
>       while (ahc_is_paused(ahc) == 0)
>               ;
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