Gerard,

A while back I sent you two diffs for the sym53c8xx driver, and you OK'ed
them, but I haven't seen them turn up in the mainline kernel yet.

I've attached the same patches, against 2.4.8 here.  

Let me know if there is any reason NOT to include these.

Tim
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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@sun.com