Re: pre-patch-2.2.8-series candidate, TESTERS NEEDED...

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Tue, 4 May 1999 10:27:30 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 4 May 1999, Thomas Sailer wrote:

> "Andre M. Hedrick" wrote:
> >
> > Patch will not be uploaded to the list......get it at ::
> > http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/
> > server/udma/2.2.7.uniform-ide-6.19.delta.patch.gz
>
> The resulting kernel won't link if the IDE subsystem is
> configured as modules and SCSI as builtin, since in sd_ioctl.c,
> hdio_getbios is referenced which is in ide-probe.c

Andries,

How do we work around this with out the obvious clobber of using config
stubs? Since the idea behind the no BIOS code it correctly determine
whether the first disk is sda or hda, should this be moved off to a higher
level of the kerenl or should we mirror the code to address the scsi issue.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

Candidate for pre-patch-2.2.8-1
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/2.2.7.uniform-ide-6.19.delta.patch.gz

http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/2.2.7.uniform-ide-6.19.patch.gz
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ide.2.0.37pre11+pat7.gz
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/hdparm-3.5i.patch.gz

APC UPS Daemon Support Center.
http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/
GPLed source on April 7, 1999

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