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Re: NCR5380.c: IO request dead lock within the _main() function?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Jun 4 17:07:44 2000
To: christian@montanari.f9.co.uk (christian Montanari)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 21:44:07 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <14650.37069.818261.488539@gedeon.ailsa.co.uk> from "christian Montanari" at Jun 04, 2000 09:34:03 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > The core processing loop needs rewriting
> > to fix this. Unfortunately the code is so bad nobody has had time to figure
> > what it is meant to be doing, let alone fix it.
>
> OK, lets say... Is it worth it? Are they many duds (I am not one) out
> there trying to use this puny card for heavy transfer (interrupts do
> not work) by polling the driver's addresses? etc...
Interrupts work on most of those cards actually. There is even someone making
PCI variants of these horrors!!
Can you send me a diff -u rather than straight diff
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