Re: PCI-SCI Drivers v1.1-7 released

[Jeff V. Merkey]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:02:26PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Hummm.  Where are the patches for 2.4 to correct this?  They are not posted
> > with the 7.1 release.  They need to be.  The compiler not supporting 
> 
> They don't need to be because the thing is just a warning. The kernel has
> plenty of warnings and this one is 100% harmless.
> 
> > #ident for CVS is a show stopper, and needs correcting ASAP.  How can 
> > someone use CVS properly with this, Alan?
> 
> Im using CVS all the time. Im not sure what the #ident thing would be. But
> then like everyone else I know I use $ident in comments. JJ will probably
> be glad to work on that one

I sent him the code and he is running it down.  It works great on 
gcc 2.91.  

Jeff

> 
> Right now I'm down to one known problem with 2.96 and 2.4.x kernels - which
> is that CVS gcc and 2.96 accidentally changed the ABI and broke the bitfield
> assumptions in DAC960.c/h. JJ I believe just committed patches for that one
> 

:-)

Jeff

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