Bug#632929: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: missing aha152x module in amd64 architecture

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:17:20PM +0200, Denis Prost wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 07/07/2011 16:46, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> >On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 15:41 +0200, Denis Prost wrote:
> >>is that related to the kernel version number ?
> >No, this has not changed in a long time.
> >
> >>Mageia 1 pour x86_64 architecture has an aha152x module, but it uses a
> >>2.6.38.7 kernel.
> >I think you're mistaken.  But if they do have it, then they must have
> >modified the kernel and not sent their changes upstream.
> >
> >Ben.
> >
> It's also available on linux mint 11 :
> 
> denis@denis-portable ~ $ uname -m
> x86_64
> denis@denis-portable ~ $ find /lib/modules -name "aha*"
> /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/aha152x_cs.ko
 
You originally referred to the aha152x driver.  This is a different
driver.  And presumably we could enable it without needing any
patches, though it seems slightly crazy to be using a 16-bit bus on
a 64-bit system...

Ben.

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