> I asked people to explain why it was needed. I am still waiting. It is a
> patch that does nothing. I will not put random deep magic into the
> kernel.

Alan, I replied to you a few weeks ago (pre20 times) when you asked me why
I was sending you this patch. (perhaps you didn't receive my email). What I 
observed was that my netraid card had a 0xXXXX8 base address and the patch
aligned that address to 16 bytes :

|Bus  0, device   2, function  1:
|  Unknown class: Intel OEM MegaRAID Controller (rev 5).
|    Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  BIST capable.  IRQ 10.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.  
|    Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf0000008].

as you see, the board is found at 0xf0000008, but used aligned to 0xf0000000.

my server currently works with that patch, but I'm sure it won't boot anymore
if I apply this 2.2.18pre25 alone. 

just in case, here it is again.

Cheers,
Willy

--- 18pre/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c       Wed Nov  8 16:02:45 2000
+++ 18pre+megaraid/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c      Fri Nov 10 12:03:05 2000
@@ -1920,10 +1920,14 @@
 
     pciIdx++;
 
-    if (flag & BOARD_QUARTZ)
+    if (flag & BOARD_QUARTZ) {
+       megaBase &= PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_IO_MASK;
        megaBase = (long) ioremap (megaBase, 128);
-    else
+    }
+    else {
+       megaBase &= PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_MEM_MASK;
        megaBase += 0x10;
+    }
 
     /* Initialize SCSI Host structure */
     host = scsi_register (pHostTmpl, sizeof (mega_host_config));
-
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