From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270505AbTGXHhL (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:37:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270507AbTGXHhL (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:37:11 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:14754 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270505AbTGXHhI (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:37:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1F9016.4030908@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:51:50 -0400 From: Doug Ledford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Cole CC: backblue , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Error compiling, scsi 2.6.0-test1 References: <20030716232827.2272eccb.backblue@netcabo.pt> <1058442701.8621.26.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030717195952.130827f5.backblue@netcabo.pt> <1058547612.1632.61.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <1058547612.1632.61.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steven Cole wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:59, backblue wrote: > >>hello Alan, >> >>I need this driver, but i dont know anouth of C, to code a new one, that old's on 2.6.0 :(, where to start? i really need it, i have everything scsi on my computer, with this controler, and i dont like the idea, of dont have suport to it!! >>On 17 Jul 2003 12:51:42 +0100 >>Alan Cox wrote: >> >> >>>On Mer, 2003-07-16 at 23:28, backblue wrote: >>> >>>>I have gcc 3.3, on x86 machine, i have this error, compiling the suport for my scsi card, someone know the problem? >>> >>>Nobody has coverted this driver to 2.6 yet. If someone does then it will >>>get merged in, if not the initio support will get deleted in time. >>> > > > It looks like this came up a year ago: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102526383927111&w=2 > > You might plead with Doug to finish the conversion. > > Steven I wretched horribly when I read that driver. Then I started to renounce my computer ways to become a Tibetten Monk and live out the remainder of my days in peace and solice. Unfortunately, about that time, a space thread passed another thread, opened up a short lived wormhole, and I got a futuristic glimpse of myself in a robe and bald and I immediately came back to my senses. I still couldn't handle that driver code though. The urge to fix massive brokenness other than just PCI DMA code issues was overwhelming to my right hand's obsessive/compulsive disorder. However, as a hint to anyone out there, I fixed the other initio driver a long ways back. A person could pull those 3 (I think) changesets from the kernel tree and see what I did. If you ignore all the changes to eliminate the fixed array of hosts and that kind of crap, and just concentrate on the changes that involve the PCI DMA mapping, they should apply almost perfectly into this other initio driver as they are very close copies of each other. -- Doug Ledford 919-754-3700 x44233 Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Dr. Raleigh, NC 27606