Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 1997 11:26:12 -0800 | From | "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <> | Subject | Re: AIC7850 on IWill board refuses to work since 2.0.26 |
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From: "Wolfgang Baudler" <baudler@lulu.gsf.de> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:46:58 +0100
There is a change at the beginning:
In kernel 2.0.25:
/* limits */
#define MAX_CHRDEV 64 #define MAX_BLKDEV 64
In kernel 2.0.26 and the following kernels up to 2.0.28:
/* limits */
#define MAX_CHRDEV 128 #define MAX_BLKDEV 128
If I change MAX_BLKDEV back to 64 everything works well again. MAX_BLKDEV is used in linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c.
The use in scsi.c is only in a routine that's compiled #ifdef DEBUG_TIMEOUT, so it seems rather unlikely that's the problem.
What version of GCC was being used to compile the kernel? Perhaps there is a compiler bug that this change tickles. You'd think if this were a widespread problem we'd have heard about it sooner.
Leonard
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