Re: egcs-1.1.2 ping bug also causes miscompilation of pcbit isdn drive

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:14:13 +0100 (BST)

> Most kernel's sources are not compiled into "your" kernel: those are
> drivers for hw you don't have. You really don't care that seagate.c
> scsi driver is broken w.r.t. SMP, do you?

When you are a vendor, yes you do. Because someone will be using an XT hard
disk on a quad PII. I actually fixed the NCR53c400a support (ye irqless 8bit
scanner scsi thing) for SMP because there are people mad enough to be using
them in SMP boxes.

Alan

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