From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:09:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:09:14 -0500 Received: from h00e02954cece.ne.mediaone.net ([24.91.228.68]:53380 "EHLO gonzo.amherst.genlogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:09:03 -0500 Message-ID: <3C367C83.2060404@mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 23:09:39 -0500 From: Sam Krasnik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: atp870u and acard scsi HELP! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> i tried rewriting it myself...i cannot get it to insmod. >> it just hangs...can anyone help? i am not very >> knowledgeable of the scsi driver code ;-( >> > > Umm the atp870u is supported in 2.2 and 2.4 by the default kernels. ...so one would think...yes it is supported technically, and the atp870u driver does exist...but the 2.4 one does not work, that is a known fact. browsing the forums, it seems that people were complaining about >2037 not working, but that the original one worked just fine. some of the code has a different format in 2.4 than 2.2 and 2.0, mostly the external stuff to load as modules...etc, but i can't get it to work. so i needed help porting the old one into the new 2.4 framework if you will. regards, --sam