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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:15:16 +0100
From: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
To: Frank Davis <fdavis@si.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.24 : BusLogic cleanup - architecture dependencies
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As noted below, Frank Davis suggests I fire this back into the
list for discussion.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:04:17AM -0400, Frank Davis wrote:
> Dale,
>   Here's what I know....
> not all architectures define an 'address' variable in the struct 
> scatterlist, so some archs will compile with no problems, others won't. 
> If you're using a i386, there isn't an address variable. Here's what I 
> suggest....email linux-kernel with the problem report for 2.5.26, and 
> explain what I have stated above. I could have a bunch of #ifdef for 
> each arch, but thats plain crazy. I'd be interested in what some other 
> developers suggest. Sorry, I couldn't provide you a patch.
> 
> Regards,
> Frank
> 

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Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Dale Amon wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:07:18AM -0400, Frank Davis wrote:
>>
>>>Hello all,
>>> The following patch removes some unneccessary (it seems) typedefs, and 
>>>adds in the pci_set_dma_mask() check mentioned in 
>>>Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt . Please review.
>>
>
>The driver needs more than just the dma mask set.
>
>
>>Did your Buslogic patch ever get included? I'm still
>>getting errors compiling 2.5.x as of .26 last night:
>
>
>Probably didn't get in because the driver is still not compliant with the 
>new kernel requirements for PCI/DMA
>
>
>>BusLogic.c:32: #error Please convert me to Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
>>BusLogic.c: In function `BusLogic_DetectHostAdapter':
>>BusLogic.c:2841: warning: long unsigned int format, BusLogic_IO_Address_T 
>>arg (arg 2)
>>BusLogic.c: In function `BusLogic_QueueCommand':
>>BusLogic.c:3415: structure has no member named `address'
>
>
>That probably wants sg_dma_address()
>
>
>>BusLogic.c: In function `BusLogic_BIOSDiskParameters':
>>BusLogic.c:4141: warning: implicit declaration of function 
>>`scsi_bios_ptable'
>>BusLogic.c:4141: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a 
>>cast
>>make[2]: *** [BusLogic.o] Error 1
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