From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ken@krwtech.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Advansys SCSI driver and 2.6.16
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:42:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060419224202.3e2f99f5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060419163247.6986a87c.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> There have been no changes in the advansys driver since November 2005, and
> nothing substantial in over a year.
The advansys driver has been disabled for two years - since 2.6.8:
> ChangeSet@1.497.4282.43, 2004-06-26 10:50:12-05:00, jejb@mulgrave.(none)
> advansys: add warning and convert #includes
>
> The DMA conversion of the advansys driver is still
> broken. Add a #warning to the driver and a comment
> above it explaining what needs to be done.
>
> Mark the driver as BROKEN because of the warning
>
> Also remove the #include "scsi.h"
>
> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
>
So I don't know how you managed to get it to build in 2.6.15.
You can reenable it with:
--- devel/drivers/scsi/Kconfig~a 2006-04-19 22:39:51.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/scsi/Kconfig 2006-04-19 22:40:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ config SCSI_DPT_I2O
config SCSI_ADVANSYS
tristate "AdvanSys SCSI support"
- depends on (ISA || EISA || PCI) && SCSI && BROKEN
+ depends on (ISA || EISA || PCI) && SCSI
help
This is a driver for all SCSI host adapters manufactured by
AdvanSys. It is documented in the kernel source in
_
and it does compile. Does it actually work?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-19 18:49 Ken Witherow
2006-04-19 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-20 5:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-04-20 6:50 ` Ken Witherow
2006-04-20 7:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-20 22:19 ` [PATCH 2.6.16] scsi: clean up warnings in Advansys driver Ken Witherow
2006-04-20 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-20 17:23 ` Advansys SCSI driver and 2.6.16 Dave Jones
2006-04-20 5:27 Ken Witherow
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