Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 14:24:03 EDT

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    > > You have to do Buslogic and AHA17xx before AHA15xx or you get a wrong driver
    > > and in the 17xx case data corruption risks
    >
    > Hmm.. The current order is the same as in 2.2.x, and puts aha17xx _after_
    > the other ones. Or did that change in the later 2.2.x series?

    I will double check that with Eric Youngdale. It may be the driver in the 1542
    code was changed to detect a 17xx and leave it alone at some point in 2.0
    days. The buslogic one the comments still claim is needed

    > > You must do scsi before i2o_scsi or AMI Megaraids break
    >
    > So change the drivers/Makefile to put scsi before i2o and
    > drivers/scsi/Makefile to do the aha17xx thing first, and we're all done.

    Yep.

    > (Not that I think any distribution would come with i2o even enabled at
    > this point, and the scsi ones all tend to be modules too).

    Actually RH7 does I believe support it, but modular.

    > End of story. No "reorganizations" needed.

    Agreed.

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