Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:09:21AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: >From: Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Some of our systems are mixed old and new. Making one driver work >with both old and new is a significant life-simplification. > > There are some old ncr53c8xx chips for which the sym53c8xx driver > absolutely cannot support. ... and if the sym53c8xx driver erroneously does try to operate 53c810 based host adapters, report it as a bug to Gérard. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
Date:Wed, 30 Aug 2000 02:08:39 -0700 From: Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some of our systems are mixed old and new. Making one driver work with both old and new is a significant life-simplification. There are some old ncr53c8xx chips for which the sym53c8xx driver absolutely cannot support. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
According to Alan Cox: > > Nobody knows why this patch works. (Really!) But it does. (Really!) > > It makes the sym53c8xx driver work even with some very old 53c810 chips. > > Without this patch, the driver hangs on them. This is reproducible > > You arent supposed to use sym53c8xx with old chips but ncr53c8xx Some of our systems are mixed old and new. Making one driver work with both old and new is a significant life-simplification. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
> Nobody knows why this patch works. (Really!) But it does. (Really!) > It makes the sym53c8xx driver work even with some very old 53c810 chips. > Without this patch, the driver hangs on them. This is reproducible You arent supposed to use sym53c8xx with old chips but ncr53c8xx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
Nobody knows why this patch works. (Really!) But it does. (Really!) It makes the sym53c8xx driver work even with some very old 53c810 chips. Without this patch, the driver hangs on them. This is reproducible You arent supposed to use sym53c8xx with old chips but ncr53c8xx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:09:21AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: From: Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of our systems are mixed old and new. Making one driver work with both old and new is a significant life-simplification. There are some old ncr53c8xx chips for which the sym53c8xx driver absolutely cannot support. ... and if the sym53c8xx driver erroneously does try to operate 53c810 based host adapters, report it as a bug to Gérard. Regards, -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, FRG SCSI, Security PGP signature
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
Date:Wed, 30 Aug 2000 02:08:39 -0700 From: Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of our systems are mixed old and new. Making one driver work with both old and new is a significant life-simplification. There are some old ncr53c8xx chips for which the sym53c8xx driver absolutely cannot support. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
Date:Tue, 29 Aug 2000 18:33:54 -0700 From: Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nobody knows why this patch works. (Really!) But it does. (Really!) It makes the sym53c8xx driver work even with some very old 53c810 chips. Without this patch, the driver hangs on them. This is reproducible I would suggest that this change goes through Gerard Roudier, the maintainer of this driver. Especially since I do know he does have a large set of other updates for his drivers scheduled for 2.2.18 Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI
Nobody knows why this patch works. (Really!) But it does. (Really!) It makes the sym53c8xx driver work even with some very old 53c810 chips. Without this patch, the driver hangs on them. This is reproducible Index: drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.c --- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.c.prev +++ drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.cSat Jun 17 17:49:46 2000 @@ -4792,5 +4792,5 @@ printk(KERN_INFO NAME53C "%s-%d: rev=0x% #define XXX0 #else -#define XXX3 +#define XXX2 #endif np->script0->dataphase[XXX] = cpu_to_scr(SCR_JUMP); -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
