Problem w/ Linux 2.4.2 & Justin's SCSI patch

[Tom Wirschell]

Since my "Unexpected busfree" problem wasn't fixed with the updated driver
by Doug, I tried Justin's latest driver
(linux-aic7xxx-6.1.7-2.4.2.diffs.gz) on a fresh Linux 2.4.2 tree.

Applying it took some effort, probably because I don't often patch source
trees. I simply did a 'patch < patchfile' which got me into trouble (btw,
there were rejects on the Makefile in the scsi/pcmcia section, but since I
don't use PCMCIA here I ignored it. All 3 hunks got rejected) because
apparently this command refuses to create directories and seems to skip
patches on files in a non-existant directory. All presumptions, I'll fully
admit to that. If anybody has a better patch command I'm all ears. After a
few attempts I got a nice clean compile out of it so I'm assuming I
eventually got it right.

Anyways, the problem. Since my machine is 100% SCSI I compiled the aic7xxx
driver into the kernel. I rebooted with the new kernel in place and imagine
my surprise when I got a kernel panic because no root filesystem was
mounted...
Looking back up the messages, I saw the place where the SCSI driver was
being attempted to load, but it was followed by 3 lines, each saying
something like: "request_module[scsi_host_adapter]:root fs not mounted".
Well, DUH, the root FS is on the SCSI disk.
I checked my configuration (attached my .config file) and sure enough the
aic7xxx driver is marked as 'y' and NOT 'm'.

It's a shame, really, as I was really looking forward to giving this driver
a go. Any hints/comments/better patch commands will be highly appreciated.

Tom Wirschell
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