Re: [PATCH] Fix reference counting for failed SCSI devices

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:51:29PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> Large segments of the aic79xx driver are identical to the aic7xxx driver
> except that all the functions being ahd_ instead of ahc_, so you should
> just be able to mirror quite a lot of the aic7xxx updates.  However, you
> need to include a large number of rather nasty u320 parameters in the
> SPI transport Class (and make sure they're coupled correctly) to get
> domain validation to work ... the transport class has also only been
> tested on speeds up to u160, so going to u320 will be a first for it
> too...

I wonder if LSI have any preliminary work in that area for the Fusion
driver.  Eric?

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