Hi,

I've been trying to compile 2.5 kernels in my all SCSI machine, however 
failing miserably. It compiles but gives me a nasty oops upon reboot. 
Since I've not had such show stopper with any 2.4 kernel, I tried to 
compile an early 2.5, eg. 2.5.1-pre1 (not avoid 2.5.0 to avoid umount 
breakage) and it compiled, as one would expect. However, I start to get 
oopses right from 2.5.1-pre2 onwards. I tried up to 2.5.3-final and the 
same result is obtained.

Upon boot, I see it oopses when detecting SCSI devices (namely the two 
hard drives) related to the aic7xxx driver. This doesn't surprise me at 
all knowing that since 2.5.1-pre2 I get compile warnings precisely with 
this driver. Here's the stderr from the 'make bzImage' process:


In file included from aic7xxx_linux.c:122:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'
In file included from aic7xxx_proc.c:42:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'
In file included from aic7770_linux.c:42:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'
In file included from aic7xxx_linux_pci.c:42:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'
In file included from aic7xxx.c:45:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'
In file included from aic7xxx_93cx6.c:70:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'
In file included from aic7770.c:45:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'
In file included from aic7xxx_pci.c:47:
aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_done_unlock':
aic7xxx_osm.h:750: warning: unused variable `host'


I'm not sure how can I dump the oops output here but if it is really 
needed, I'll try to provide you with it. My .config is goes attached. 
This is a Pentium-Classic 100MHz, 32MB RAM.

I don't know if someone arose this problem before. If so, my apologies. 
I don't know if this is somehow connected with the oopses but it's just 
too much coincidence. Sorry if I'm talking nonsense here, but what you 
see here is well...a newbie :|

Thanks in advance,

// Paulo Andre'



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