On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:52:01PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:40:23PM -0400, Nathan wrote:
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/wes/src/kernel/linux-2.5.20/include -Wall
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
> > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
> > -malign-functions=4 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=aic7xxx_linux -c -o
> > aic7xxx_linux.o aic7xxx_linux.c
> > aic7xxx_linux.c:2829: unknown field `abort' specified in initializer
> > aic7xxx_linux.c:2829: unknown field `reset' specified in initializer
> >
> > Erhm, what's that mean? ^_^ And more importantly, how does one fix that?
>
> It means the scsi driver has no error handling. Either a, add
> appropriate error handling routines, or b, enable the option in
> the scsi menu labelled "Use SCSI drivers with broken error handling [DANGEROUS]"
>
> This is the fallout of a patch from Christoph Hellwig to make it more
> obvious which drivers are still in need of attention. This patch is
> missing from Linus' tree, so things compile fine there. As there's been
> little to no progress at fixing these, I'll push the same patch to Linus
> in the next round, so things will break there too.
>
> Dave.
The aic driver already uses the new error handler, it just references the
removed fields when initializing them to NULL.
-- Patrick Mansfield
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