Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
> > 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. ncr53c8xx works with the old chips too but at a performance cost. Its all in Gerhard's docs.

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-30 Thread Kurt Garloff
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 wh

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-30 Thread David S. Miller
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 abso

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-30 Thread Chip Salzenberg
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 o

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-29 Thread 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 - To unsu

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-29 Thread David S. Miller
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. T

[PATCH] 2.2: Magic patch for older Symbios SCSI

2000-08-29 Thread Chip Salzenberg
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/scs