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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.3
Date: 5 Mar 2001 19:42:10 -0800
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103052124250.1132-100000@groveland.analogic.com>,
Richard B. Johnson <johnson@groveland.analogic.com> wrote:
>
>I   -- S T R O N G L Y -- suggest that nobody use this kernel with
>a BusLogic SCSI controller until this problem is fixed.

Ho humm..

Anybody who has any ideas or input, please holler.  There are no actual
BusLogic controller changes in the current 2.4.3-pre kernels at all, so
there's something else going on.

There's a new aic7xxx driver there - did you enable support for that? I
wonder if there could be some inter-action: the aic7xxx driver tries to
probe every PCI SCSI controller because they are basically hard to ID
any other way (no single vendor/id combination, or even a simple
pattern).  But it has some rather careful internal logic to filter out
all non-aic7xxx controllers, so this really doesn't look likely.

If you didn't compile aic7xxx in, the only other SCSI change (apart from
a lot of spelling fixes in comments etc) is some trivial error handling,
like changing scsi_test_unit_ready to not have a result buffer (because
it doesn't have a result except for the regular sense buffer).  Which
again certainly shouldn't be able to matter at all. 

Ideas?

		Linus
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