From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aic7xxx strange code
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:17:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040101161731.GB18742@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478922704.1072973783@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:16:23AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >> I'm more than happy to change the #ifdefs on the hack to exclude 2.6
> >> so long as all platforms the driver operates under behave as expected.
> >> If 2.4 is any guide, however, there may still be some bogus code lurking
> >> around that uses the "normal" dma mask incorrectly.
> >
> > Those platforms break the API and should be fixed as opposed to hacks added
> > to every single driver in drivers/*
>
> Unfortunately, fixing 2.4 and 2.6 now doesn't help in supporting older
> kernels that are still in production. You can't change the past no
> matter how hard we'd like to try.
But vendors will update those kernels.....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-01 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 15:46 aic7xxx strange code Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-31 18:36 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-01-01 10:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-01 16:16 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-01-01 16:17 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-01-01 16:21 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-01-01 16:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-01 22:31 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-01 22:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-01 23:14 ` Andi Kleen
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