Subject: 2.4.4, 2.4.4-ac1 and -ac3: oops loading future domain scsi module
Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:18AM +0200
Quoting Carlo E. Prelz (fluido@fluido.as):
> Here I am with another, fresh oops that I encountered while exploring
> new kernels. This time, the oops is generated when trying to load the
> module for a very old (1993) Future Domain SCSI card. 2.4.3-ac7 was my
> previous kernel and worked perfectly.
I made some more research. Eventually, it seems the problem is in this
patch that was included in 2.4.4:
@@ -969,6 +971,7 @@
return 0;
shpnt->irq = interrupt_level;
shpnt->io_port = port_base;
+ scsi_set_pci_device(shpnt->pci_dev, pdev);
shpnt->n_io_port = 0x10;
print_banner( shpnt );
Well, but my card is ISA! It should not set any PCI device.
I applied the following patch, and the problem disappeared:
--- fdomain.c~ Wed May 2 07:08:27 2001
+++ fdomain.c Wed May 2 08:58:03 2001
@@ -971,6 +971,7 @@
return 0;
shpnt->irq = interrupt_level;
shpnt->io_port = port_base;
+ if(pdev!=NULL)
scsi_set_pci_device(shpnt->pci_dev, pdev);
shpnt->n_io_port = 0x10;
print_banner( shpnt );
I hope this is the right way...
Ciao
Carlo
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