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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: aic7xxx funcs without return values 
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Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:53:53 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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>The bigger problem with that driver for pedants is that it contains globals
>with names like 'hard_error' which are asking for clashes . Bizarrely all
>the static functions are carefully named ahc_* and the globals are called
>things like 'restart_squencer'

Such is the evolutionary nature of most drivers.  I just spent a bit
of time cleaning this up.  Some of the exported symbols didn't even
need to be in the current layout of the driver.

Thanks for the reminder.
Justin
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