linux-kernel - Re: Conflict when loading initio driver

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Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:32:32 -0700
From:	"Scott Simpson" <simpson100@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Conflict when loading initio driver

Alan Cox wrote:
> Humm not a collision - thats a bug in the driver updating. Looks like the
> changes I made and combined with Christoph's lost a line somewhere when I
> was merging it all. Try the following
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
>
> diff -u --new-file --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude --recursive linux.vanilla-2.6.23rc8-mm1/drivers/scsi/initio.c linux-2.6.23rc8-mm1/drivers/scsi/initio.c
> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.23rc8-mm1/drivers/scsi/initio.c	2007-09-26 16:46:54.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.23rc8-mm1/drivers/scsi/initio.c	2007-09-30 22:22:03.839113616 +0100
> @@ -2867,6 +2867,7 @@
>  	}
>  	host = (struct initio_host *)shost->hostdata;
>  	memset(host, 0, sizeof(struct initio_host));
> +	host->addr = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
>
>  	if (!request_region(host->addr, 256, "i91u")) {
>  		printk(KERN_WARNING "initio: I/O port range 0x%x is busy.\n", host->addr);

I tried this fix on my SuSE 10.3 system (2.6.22.5-29 kernel) and it
didn't work. The system froze on boot. I think there might be more to
it.
     Scott
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