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SubjectRe: [patch] RFC: Namespace-collision between SIM710 and 53C7,8XX
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)

> diff -u -r linux2322_clean/drivers/scsi/sim710_d.h linux/drivers/scsi/sim710_d.h
> --- linux2322_clean/drivers/scsi/sim710_d.h Sat Oct 16 14:17:02 1999
> +++ linux/drivers/scsi/sim710_d.h Sun Oct 17 16:26:22 1999

sim710_d.h and sim710_u.h are generated by the NCR script assembler
script_asm.pl, so applying a patch to them is not very useful.
The proper solution is indeed static variables which I guess will
be a change to script_asm.pl - I'll look in to it tonight.

Richard

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