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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: rwhron@earthlink.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gibbs@scsiguy.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.12-dj1
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:54:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020502145456.B16935@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020502072010.A26936@rushmore>

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:20:10AM -0400, rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:
 > This is the output while compiling aic7xxx_old.c:
 > 
 > aic7xxx_old.c:11950: unknown field `abort' specified in initializer
 > aic7xxx_old.c:11950: unknown field `reset' specified in initializer

Stereotypical "needs error handling code" errors.

 > aic7xxxx_old.c compiles in 2.5.12 and 2.5.7-dj3, although it may
 > be broken in some other way.

Yep. Removal of the abort/reset methods shows us which SCSI drivers
don't have any error handling. So they 'worked' up until you got
an error, and then...

 > Is it appropriate to edit .config to use the new driver by setting:
 > CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
 > CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=253
 > CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000
 > Is the new driver experimental, or ?

I've no experience of either driver in practice, so I'm not actually
sure what the game plan is here. Someone want to fill us in? Justin?

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-02 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-02 11:20 Linux 2.5.12-dj1 rwhron
2002-05-02 12:54 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-05-03 13:37   ` Justin T. Gibbs
     [not found] <Pine.NEB.4.40.0205021248290.14217-100000@mimas.fachschafte n.tu-muenchen.de>
2002-05-02 17:04 ` Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-01 20:36 Dave Jones
2002-05-02 10:51 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-05-02 11:06 ` Rudmer van Dijk
     [not found] ` <20020502110625.3DFA41EF73@Cantor.suse.de>
2002-05-02 12:48   ` Dave Jones

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