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On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> > Hmmm... In fact this patch hasn't the expected effect :). I didn't prov=
ide=20
> > a better one since nobody seems to need to configure both drivers.
>=20
> Don't both drivers have to configured in the GENERIC case?

Only the support for the C1010 requires both driver to be configured=20
in GENERIC since it is the kernel that will be used for installation.

For now, my understanding of the situation is:

1) 4.0 has appropriate flags to deterministically know about the driver=20
   the kernel will use for each 53c8xx chip when ncr and sym are
   configured.
2) next release is 4.0
3) 3.4 is out of the door without the sym driver.
4) It has been reported that the actual order drivers are probed
   relies on <arch>/conf/files order and this probably will not change in=
=20
   later 3.X kernels until 4.X will be preferred by users.

If (4) is ok, then no need to go with a patch, in my opinion. If (4) is
untrue, some tiny patch, similar to the one that had been proposed,
applied to one of the driver should fit. If the sym driver has to be
modified, this will not make problem. But a clear decision has to be
taken, and I am waiting for this to occur.

G=E9rard.



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