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Evident bug in the new SCSI code.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dario_Ballabio)
Thu Jan 1 13:27:55 1998

Date: 	Thu, 1 Jan 1998 19:17:02 +0100
From: Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com (Dario_Ballabio)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu

The variable host_active is declared static in both scsi.c and
scsi_obsolete.c, while it is obviously supposed to be the same.
Without a fix any configuration with multiple scsi hosts
wishing to use one host at a time is going to hang at the
very first access to the second host.
  
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