[wd719x] Working 2.4 driver (alpha)

[Shane Chen]

Big thanks to Karen!

Please try the driver and report any errors to the list.

http://www.knowplace.org/dl/wd719x-2.4.tgz

Shane

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: email
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:05:25 -0600
To: shane at knowplace.org, Juergen.Gaertner at mbox.si.uni-hannover.de

     I emailed last night, but I'm not sure if my config on that
computer
was setup properly to send out email, so I figured I'd mail again from a
site that I know is set up well to make sure.  I recently hacked the
wd719x
driver to work with kernel 2.4.7 (and assumedly other 2.4 versions) just
by
a few changes.  It works for me now (I spent last night listening to
mp3's
that I hadn't heard in years because I couldn't use my Cheetah), and I
was
wondering if you'd like me to send it to you.  I'll add a warning,
that...
well, you know how it was "very alpha" before?  Well, I hardly know
anything about the kernel or scsi subsystem - I got it to work by trying
to
get it to compile (and later, trying to get it to insmod), looking at
the
errors I'd get, seeing what functions were responsible, and then
searching
the net for people who were having the same errors in porting their
drivers
to 2.4, and seing what they did  ;)  So, in short, now its "very very
alpha".  Probably more alpha than it's ever been.  There's a very cheap
hack concerning the PROC_SCSI defines (I couldn't figure out where those
get set!  A grep of the whole kernel tree couldn't find a single one
getting defined!), there's some usage of functions that I'm not entirely
sure were proper changes (like, changing scsi_init_free to kfree), etc.
But, I haven't had any trouble with it yet  :)  All I've tried so far is
a
scsi-3 hard drive, but again, I've had no problems.  I'm considering
burning an image of my root fs to disk (for backup - very important!)
and
then using my scsi drive to hold my root fs and swap space... so, if any
bugs are going to come up, that should bring them up pretty quickly  ;)
Anyways... if you want the files, just let me know  :)

     - Karen Pease