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DateWed, 19 Apr 2006 22:42:02 -0700
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: Advansys SCSI driver and 2.6.16
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> There have been no changes in the advansys driver since November 2005, and
>  nothing substantial in over a year. 

The advansys driver has been disabled for two years - since 2.6.8:

> ChangeSet@1.497.4282.43, 2004-06-26 10:50:12-05:00, jejb@mulgrave.(none)
>   advansys: add warning and convert #includes
> 
>   The DMA conversion of the advansys driver is still
>   broken.  Add a #warning to the driver and a comment
>   above it explaining what needs to be done.
> 
>   Mark the driver as BROKEN because of the warning
> 
>   Also remove the #include "scsi.h"
> 
>   Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
> 

So I don't know how you managed to get it to build in 2.6.15.

You can reenable it with:

--- devel/drivers/scsi/Kconfig~a	2006-04-19 22:39:51.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/scsi/Kconfig	2006-04-19 22:40:00.000000000 -0700
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ config SCSI_DPT_I2O
 
 config SCSI_ADVANSYS
 	tristate "AdvanSys SCSI support"
-	depends on (ISA || EISA || PCI) && SCSI && BROKEN
+	depends on (ISA || EISA || PCI) && SCSI
 	help
 	  This is a driver for all SCSI host adapters manufactured by
 	  AdvanSys. It is documented in the kernel source in
_
and it does compile.   Does it actually work?
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