> I recently did some hardware switching in my house and need to know
> how to switch the detection of the aic7xxx controllers in the kernel. I've
> got a 7880 on the motherboard and a 2940u2w in there but the motherboard
> card only has a 68 pin connector. The bios detects the 2940u2w first but
> Linux reverses it so the 7880 is done first. With 2.3.12 I can use
> "aic7xxx=reverse_scan" but that doesn't seem to do anything on 2.3.29. I've
> tried "pci=reverse" but that also didn't seem to have an effect. Is there
> another argument I should pass to the kernel or am I going to have to try
> hard coding it?
The "aic7xxx=..." options don't work in 2.3.29. This patch should fix
this, but I didn't try it.
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> <mj@suse.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ "Light-year? One-third less calories than a regular year."
--- linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.c.mj Tue Nov 30 09:48:08 1999 +++ linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.c Tue Nov 30 09:49:08 1999 @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ #include <linux/proc_fs.h> #include <linux/blk.h> #include <linux/tqueue.h> +#include <linux/init.h> #include "sd.h" #include "scsi.h" #include "hosts.h" @@ -1499,8 +1500,8 @@ * to a parameter with a ':' between the parameter and the value. * ie. aic7xxx=unpause:0x0A,extended *-F*************************************************************************/ -void -aic7xxx_setup(char *s, int *dummy) +static void +aic7xxx_setup(char *s) { int i, n; char *p; @@ -1638,6 +1639,8 @@ } } } + +__setup("aic7xxx=", aix7xxx_setup); /*+F************************************************************************* * Function:
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