linux-kernel - Re: [git patch] SCSI aic94xx fix

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Date:	Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:04:58 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patch] SCSI aic94xx fix

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 14:53 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > Sure, I'll state my case:  This is a bug, but it has no affected users,
> > nor will it because the aic94xx doesn't work on non-x86 architectures by
> > reason of other longstanding bugs (and TODEVICE/FROMDEVICE only matters
> 
> False.  It fails to work on _some_ non-x86 platforms.

OK, it fails to work on everything I can test, which is parisc, ia64 and
ppc.  However, I'm fairly certain there are no other non-x86 users
because we have no bug reports.

James


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