Re: [PATCH]: Fix Ultrastor asm snippet

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 20 May 2011 09:02:15 -0400
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:06:05PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Commit 1292500b replaced
> > 
> > "=m" (*field) : "1" (*field)
> > 
> > with
> > 
> > "=m" (*field) :
> > 
> > with comment "The following patch fixes it by using the '+' operator on
> > the (*field) operand, marking it as read-write to gcc."
> > '+' was actually forgotten.  This really puts it.
> 
> Do you actually have the hardware or was this just a code audit?
> 
> I have the strong suspicion that this driver is pretty much dead and
> bitrotting.

There are a pile of scsi drivers like the Ultrastor that probably want
retiring via staging.

I can believe an AHA152x or two lurk around, and the odd NCR53c80 and
clones because they were so voluminous but the rest I doubt somewhat.
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