Re: [PATCH] sym53c416 driver breakage

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 10:52:05 EST

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On Fri, Feb 22 2002, Paulo Andre' wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following patch fixes a small bug which prevented the Sym53c416
> driver from compiling. I don't know to which degree this is the right
> fix, since the 'address' field from struct scatterlist just seemed to
> magically disappear. If this was intended, meaning my fix isn't
> correct, I'd like to know about it.

This is very wrong, we removed ->address for a reason (unify handling of
lo+hi memory suppot). So it may fix you compile, but that's all it will
fix. IOW, it won't work.

-- Jens Axboe

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