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Re: 2.4.5 & Adaptec 7890 U2W Controller.

To: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.4.5 & Adaptec 7890 U2W Controller.
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 13:18:12 -0500
Cc: Russel Ingram <ringram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <20007.991762536@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Keith Owens wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 02:00:52 -0600 (MDT),
> Russel Ingram <ringram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >make[5]: Entering directory
> >`/usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm'
> >gcc -I/usr/include -I. -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c
> >aicasm_symbol.c -o aicasm
> >/tmp/ccJ1BOkT.o: In function `symtable_open':
> >/tmp/ccJ1BOkT.o(.text+0x1b5): undefined reference to `__db185_open'
> >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1
> >
> >I thought originally that it might be a problem with the compiler version
> >I have, but gcc on this system is still the original gcc that installed
> >with Red Hat 6.2 -- "gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2
> >release)".  Any ideas?
>
> (1) Shoot the aic7xxx maintainer.
> (2) Hack drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm to set the correct version of
>     libdb installed on your system.  The script got it wrong.
> (3) Shoot the aic7xxx maintainer.
> (4) This is a general kernel problem, everybody is hitting it.
>     Followups to linux-kernel and the aic7xxx maintainer please, not
>     XFS.
> (5) Shoot the aic7xxx maintainer (do you detect a pattern here?).

In some defense of Justin here:
He has done some amazing work with SCSI and the cam layer of FreeBSD.
The linux community should be quite thankful he is on board.

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Russell Cattelan
cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx




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