Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:54:39 +0200 (CEST) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [patch] RFC: Namespace-collision between SIM710 and 53C7,8XX |
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On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 kernel@kvack.org wrote:
> Hello, > > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The SIM710 and 53C7,8XX scsi-drivers have a very bad case of > > namespace-collision. The following patch at least lets the drivers > > compile, but the change is rather big to do without someone testing it. > > Could you (anyone?) give feedback on the patch below? > > (patch against 2.3.22) > > How about making use of static variables instead? Renaming the variables > makes it possible that the problem will crop up again in the future. Most > drivers are fairly well contained, so it shouldn't be much more difficult.
I have looked at that, and SCSI scripts don't seem to be that good a candidate for using static....
Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
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