AHA2842 controller doesn't work anymore?
Doug Ledford
dledford at redhat.com
Tue Apr 4 23:01:40 PDT 2000
Mike Isely wrote:
>
> Well I've heard precisely zero feedback about this. So I guess nobody's
> using the AHA2842 controller anymore. Is there *anyone* successfully
> using this controller with a recent (5.1.26 or later) aic7xxx driver
> version?
>
> For what it's worth, I narrowed down the point where the breakage was
> introduced. The last working version of the aic7xxx driver (for aic7770)
> is 5.1.25. Starting with 5.1.26 the Linux kernel panics on boot with this
> driver controlling an AHA2842 controller card.
>
> I did this testing using stock 2.2.14 kernel sources, patching up the
> driver to the next version after every test. I used the same kernel
> configuration each time and compiled each kernel from a clean source tree.
>
> Suggestions anyone?
I'm going to try and fix this for the 5.1.29 driver version, but I don't have
a 7770 based card to test any more.
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