[6602] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Patch: Adding AHA-2930CU support to aic7xxx.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dledford@redhat.com)
Sat Jun 5 09:21:15 1999
From: dledford@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 08:09:54 -0400
To: "Verrilli, Mike" <VerilliM@daugherty.com>
CC: "'deang@teleport.com'" <deang@teleport.com>,
"'torvalds@transmeta.com'" <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
"'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
"Verrilli, Mike" wrote:
>
> I apologize for mailing so many people for a simple patch. I just didn't know
> who to send it to.
>
> The patch is pretty simple. I just updated include/linux/pci.h to add the
> device_id for the 2930CU. Then I updated drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.c to look for
> that device_id on the pci bus, and use the appropriate chipset, etc. I am not
> 100% positive about aic_pdevs[].flags that I have set, but it is working very
> well for me so far. This is a pretty minor change since it is essentially just
> an addition of a device_id to the detection, no real processes were changed.
This particular device id is already supported in the latest aic7xxx driver.
Additionally, this patch doesn't preserve the DEVICE_ID ordering that pci.h
needs, so it will work for one card, but will fail in other conditions.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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