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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:52:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      risner@stdio.com
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   bin/3355: ncrcontrol fails when -DFAILSAFE in kernel
Message-ID:  <199704200452.AAA00743@akira.stdio.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <199704200500.WAA04430@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         3355
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ncrcontrol fails when -DFAILSAFE in kernel
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 19 22:00:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     James Risner
>Organization:
me
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	none

>Description:

	Any kernel with option FAILSAFE turn on will not work without
	ncrcontrol.c compiled with FAILSAFE (or for that matter ANY
	other options that change the size of the struct ?cb {} in pci/ncr.c
	or the version of the NCR driver.)

>How-To-Repeat:

	Compile a kernel with -DFAILSAFE.
	try to run ncrcontrol and fails with:
	"ncrcontrol: incompatible with kernel. Rebuild!"
	recompile ncrcontrol with -DFAILSAFE and it works.

>Fix:
	
	I don't know.
	Any way of Having ncrcontrol look at "INCLUDE_CONFIG" in the kernel?
	And regen itself?  (I doubt it)

	Maybe change the error message to be more like:
	"Size of ncr kernel structures differ from running kernel? Check
	 running kernel options to insure ncrcontrol is compiled with identical
	 settings?"

Risner
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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