Re: [PATCH] m68k link error and NCR5380_exit()

Kenn Humborg
2005-03-07T23:41:52Z

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:53:22AM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:45:28AM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> > My main reservation about embarking on this is that I don't think mac_scsi
> > ever actually worked under 2.6 (or 2.5?) kernels. I'm not competent enough
> > to submit a good, untested patch for a broken driver. Maybe the best thing
> > is to make it work before worrying about style. At least then I can test
> > my work.
>
> I certainly never got it to work, but I only tried on my IIfx which
> doesn't have exactly the same version of the chip anyway.
>
> > To that end, I've included a boot log below. Maybe someone familiar with
> > the NCR5380 driver can make some sense of the failure?
>
> Looks to me like the interrupt came in after the driver already
> decided to give up for some reason. I had a big problem with that
> while I was trying to fix the driver to use DMA on the IIfx. I
> never did get it to give me the interrupt for dma completion
> before the scsi mid layer timed out.

It broke in 2.6.9 for us Linux/VAX guys.

Try the NCR5380_set_timer() change from this patch:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg01499.html

Later,
Kenn