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old scsi_module patch not in the official kernel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Arcangeli)
Thu Sep 18 16:25:35 1997

Date: 	Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:24:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>
To: dario@milano.europe.dg.com
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu

This patch (I think developed by David Campbell <campbell@torque.net)) is
not yet included in the official linux kernel (2.1 series). There is some
reason? It is very useful if you are using a ZIP drive with ppa. 

Andrea(S) Arcangeli

Here the patch:
--- linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c~   Sat May 10 17:50:02 1997
+++ linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c    Sat May 10 17:50:03 1997
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 int init_module(void) {
     driver_template.module = &__this_module;
     scsi_register_module(MODULE_SCSI_HA, &driver_template);
+    if (driver_template.present == 0)
+        scsi_unregister_module(MODULE_SCSI_HA, &driver_template);
     return (driver_template.present == 0);
 }


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