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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: potential initialisation problem in the aic94xx
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:22:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051208202237.GA9286@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133842933.3282.7.camel@mulgrave>

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:22:13PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Therefore, we have a serious bug in the aic94xx driver init code.  It's
> clearly relying on something to set it up correctly in the BIOS rather
> than doing everything in the driver init routine.  This means (unless
> corrected) that the card will only work on x86 like platforms.

... and it won't work when hotplugged, even on an x86 platform.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-08 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-28 21:52 potential initialisation problem in the aic94xx James Bottomley
2005-12-06  4:22 ` James Bottomley
2005-12-08 20:22   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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