From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: i450nx-scanning-fix.patch Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 03:27:59 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031229032759.26802292.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20031229030235.315d5502.akpm@osdl.org> <1072697054.5223.12.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:49589 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262762AbTL2L2A (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 06:28:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1072697054.5223.12.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: willy@debian.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 12:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I have had this in -mm for some time. It works on my 450nx-based 4-way. > > Was planning on merging it. Speak now or forever hold your pieces. > > the one thing I can say is that I had a "fix" for this in the RH kernel > for a while, but it broke with newer bioses. End result was that there > was a working kernel for either old or for new bioses; the existing > linux worked well for newer bioses so I just dropped the patch entirely. > (Several machines only come with newer bioses and most people with old > bioses had updated anyway, probably for y2k issues :) > Thus leaving me even-more-confused-than-usual. Ho hum. Was your fix equivalent to this patch?