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From: Nathan Myers <ncm-nospam@cantrip.org>
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Subject: Re: bad patch in aic7xxx_linux.c
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:20:46AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Nathan Myers <ncm-nospam@cantrip.org>
>>    In patch-2.4.18-pre2, a nonsensical change was made in 
>>    linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_linux.c .  While apparently 
>>    harmless, it suggests to me that you had intended to fold in an 
>>    entirely different patch, and "missed".
>    
> Missed?  That patch fixes a lethal bug.

Indeed, I missed that the value was also passed to ahc_linux_map_seg()
before being clobbered in the next statement.  
 
>    I don't find a current maintainer for aic7xxx listed in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> It's listed in the aic7xxx sources, but the fix in question came to
> Marcelo via Jens Axboe.

One can guess, but there are no addresses for anyone noted there later 
than 1999.  In particular, Justin's address isn't listed.

I am interested in hotplugged aic7xxx (1480 CardBus).  I will be posting 
an Oops shortly related to that, unless somebody tells me not to bother.  

Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org
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