scsi controller driver

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/1/07, C M Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2007 16:45, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/advansys.ko
> >
> > This is a good suggestion. It could have been made some time back and
> > much angst would have been avoided.
>
> For what it's worth, while I _do_ have advansys.c & advansys.h
> in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi the stock Debian kernel source (Etch) does
> _not_ include the module advansys.ko
> in /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/scsi. What's more I've not been
> able to find any way to enable it in make menuconfig.
>
> I did find this email message between Andrew Morton & others in a google
> search: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0604.2/0921.html
> inwhich it says "The advansys driver has been disabled for two years - since
> 2.6.8" and goes on to say how to enable it.
>
> That's a long time ago and the company Advansys seems to have gone bye-bye, so
> it may still be disabled. I'll leave it to those of you more knowledgeable in
> kernel hacking to figure this out. :-)

I can say with 100% confidence that F7 kernels still ship with this
module.  But simply googling for 30 seconds would have answered that
too, assuming that using Google isn't too hard for some people.


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