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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:33:27 +0100
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
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Subject: Re: linux-2.5.6 scsi DMA mapping and compilation fixes (not yet working)
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:23:24PM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:

 > 	Maybe you are thinking of the patches that I posted a
 > while ago that included an update to some locking changes for
 > a bunch of the scsi drivers.  Alan spoke up and said that
 > I should not apply the NCR53C80 part of those patches because
 > I had made a mistake and becuase there was a newer driver in 2.4,

 Someone else did exactly the same thing you did, and somehow
 Linus picked it up that time.  Anyway, its backed out now,
 so its a moot point.
 
 > 	Maybe you were thinking of some other event when you
 > said "I believe changes to NCR53c80 were recently reverted back because
 > these 'fixes' lead to massive data corruption."  If so, I would be
 > interested in hearing about it.

 The data corruption issue was the lack of fixed locking and
 assorted fixes that Alan did after the 2.4/2.5 split.

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