Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:06:30 +0100 | From | Richard Hirst <> | Subject | Re: [patch] RFC: Namespace-collision between SIM710 and 53C7,8XX |
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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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