According to Alan Cox:
> > Nobody knows why this patch works. (Really!) But it does. (Really!)
> > It makes the sym53c8xx driver work even with some very old 53c810 chips.
> > Without this patch, the driver hangs on them. This is reproducible....
>
> You arent supposed to use sym53c8xx with old chips but ncr53c8xx
Some of our systems are mixed old and new. Making one driver work
with both old and new is a significant life-simplification.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K
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