Re: [PATCH] fix ips driver compile problems

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 13:09:26 EST


> I know that none of the real authors is actively working on fixing this.
> Can this be accepted as a band-aid until the maintainers decide to
> maintain a 2.5 driver, or are we pushing authors to rewrite drivers
> which don't use the new DMA scheme?

Its not a band aid, its a bug. It happens to work by freak chance on x86.
Its much better it stays visibly broken until its fixed. You never
know, Jack may find someone else fixed it for him along the way.
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