Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:09:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:08:55 -0500 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:39099 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:08:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 01:54:50 +0100 (CET) From: eduard.epi@t-online.de (Peter Bornemann) To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= cc: Peter Bornemann , Jens Axboe , Kirk Alexander , Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20011214210728.K2427-100000@gerard> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, [ISO-8859-1] G?rard Roudier wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Peter Bornemann wrote: > > Ahemm -- well, > > maybe I'm the first one. I have a symbios card, which is recognized by > > lspci: SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic Corp. / Symbios Logic Inc. > > (formerly NCR) 53c810 (rev 23). > Could you, please, report me more accurate information. > TIA, > Well, it seems I made my intention not very clear: I do not want You to fix something in the driver, I just wanted from You to leave the old ncr-driver in the kernel, just for the situation of a first install. I think no newbie with little knowledge will be able to install Linux (or, maybe, FreeBSD), when he happens to own such an controller. First, he won't be able to read very much on the screen, for the loop runs much too fast and second, he will not understand when he reads something about a sym53c8xx. Exactly for this case I think the old driver should be left in. If You want, You can tell him "Attention! Use of this driver deprecated. Contact Your support." or whatever seems appropriate. It is just about the first step to linuxland :-) Hope I managed to make myself clear tris time Peter B . . |\_-^^^-_/| / (|)_(|) \ ( === X === ) \ ._|_. / ^-_ _-^ ??? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/