Re: Adaptec AIC7XXX v 6.0.6 BETA Released

From: Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 20:31:28 EST


On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> Subject: Adaptec AIC7XXX v6.0.6 BETA Released
> -------
> After several months of testing and refinement, the Adaptec
> sponsored aic7xxx driver is now entering Beta testing. Although
> still missing domain validation and the last bits of cardbus
> support, there are no known issues with the driver. I would
> encourage all users of card supported by this driver to try the
> new code and submit feedback. Patches for late 2.2.X, 2.3.99
> and 2.4.0 are provided in the driver distribution. For those
> of you building the driver as a module, take note that the module
> name is now "aic7xxx_mod" rather than "aic7xxx".
>
> As always, the most recent distribution is available here:
>
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

Justin,

Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, the kernel won't build unless you
restore this macro to the namespace after aic7xxx_linux.h blows it away:

--- linux-2.2.18/drivers/scsi/hosts.c.orig Wed Dec 13 20:27:34 2000
+++ linux-2.2.18/drivers/scsi/hosts.c Wed Dec 13 20:26:22 2000
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX
 #include "aic7xxx/aic7xxx_linux.h"
+#define current get_current()
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_IPS

Steve

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