Re: [PATCH] EISA aic7770 broken

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> Justin,
>
> I'm having troubles getting an Adaptec AHA-2740 (EISA) running on
> 2.5.64.
>
> First thing is the initial request_region succeeds, but the driver
> thinks it failed... The enclosed patch fixes it.

Take a look in kernel/resource.c. request_region returns *non-zero*
if the region is already in use. The driver doesn't want to try and
probe a region that is in use by another device. Your patch is incorrect.

> But the driver crashes badly while probing the card, somewhere in
> ahc_runq_tasklet.
>
> Any idea ?

Not without more information.

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Justin
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