From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: drop scsi_register_blocked_host() in 2.5? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:17:40 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030224201740.A13910@infradead.org> References: <70652A801D9E0C469C28A0F8BCF49CF9012EBD27@itmi1mx2.corp.emc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <70652A801D9E0C469C28A0F8BCF49CF9012EBD27@itmi1mx2.corp.emc.com>; from Ballabio_Dario@emc.com on Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:32:09AM -0500 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Ballabio_Dario@emc.com Cc: hch@infradead.org, dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:32:09AM -0500, Ballabio_Dario@emc.com wrote: > This means giving up forever to support multiple isa scsi hba's. > The aim of these routines (left unimplemented by Eric during the 2.3 > development cycle) > was to allow multiple isa hba working at the same time, but being active > one at a time. If you try to do heavy i/o on a system with multiple u14-34f > or isa eata boards (I have not tested aha1542 but it is probably the same) > it crashes immediately due to data corruption at the isa bus level. > Using a 2.2 kernel the same system works perfectly. The stubs won't help you to reach that goal. Feel free to bring them back once you have an actual implementation.