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Re: aic7xxx_host->host_no persists through ins/rmmod aic7xxx = not right.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tigran Aivazian)
Thu Jun 4 16:43:55 1998

Date: 	Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:34:50 +0100 (BST)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.demon.co.uk>
To: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>
cc: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
        linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980601183519.12361C-100000@andante.jic.com>

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> > An interesting experiment
> > would be to remove the module test in:
> > 
> >     if (max_scsi_hosts == next_scsi_host && !scsi_loadable_module_flag)
> > 	max_scsi_hosts--;
> > 
> > from hosts.c and see if the system operates properly.
> 
> 	My guess is that this will work correctly.   If we weren't so
> close to 2.2, I would just suggest yanking it out entirely (after a few
> people had tried it).

Well, I tried it, rebuilt modules, made sure that my /lib/modules/2.1.104
has the new stuff, and... it did not work. The host_no still gets
incremented persistently.

Regards,
Tigran.


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