sym53c875 in 2.4.2

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >I just tried the current bk linuxppc_2_4 on my CHRP LongTrail with Sym53c875
> >card. The Sym53c8xx driver fails downloading the SCSI scripts, and keeps
> >trying
> >ad infinitum.
> >
> >At first sight, the kernel seems to work when I disable the Sym53c8xx driver
> >with `sym53c8xx=excl:0x1400'. It boots to a shell from the MESH.
> >
> >PCI seems to be OK. Only changes are that the sl82c105 IDE got assigned some
> >I/O ports now.
> >
> >Everything worked fine in the 2.4.1 from a month ago.
>
> Are there any conflicting assignements ? Could you check if the new
> phys_to_bus() function returns proper values (finds the bus on which
> the Sym chip resides) ?

My hose resources were not set up, so phys_to_bus() returned NULL. Wouldn't it
be better to return pa in that case, or at least print an error to the console?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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