From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: aic7xxx strange code Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:17:31 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040101161731.GB18742@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <1072885576.10877.6.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <960352704.1072895786@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <20040101100809.GA1053@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <478922704.1072973783@aslan.scsiguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cmJC7u66zC7hs+87" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43945 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264443AbUAAQRl (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 11:17:41 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <478922704.1072973783@aslan.scsiguy.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 lurki= ng > >> around that uses the "normal" dma mask incorrectly. > >=20 > > Those platforms break the API and should be fixed as opposed to hacks a= dded > > to every single driver in drivers/* >=20 > 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.=20 But vendors will update those kernels..... --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/9EgbxULwo51rQBIRAmO9AJ91o3w0D5kBdHfnRU8chlb+RK6ZlgCcDp9H LQ4V8S0npbOXctMDaIlineg= =5Yve -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87--