Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:08:12 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: aic7xxx driver update |
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > Justin, > > > > Would you mind sending me a inlined patch to update aic7xxx to the current > > sources, with detailed explanation? > > Can you be more specific about what you need? I take it the BK send output > on my website is not sufficient? I can probably figure out the proper > BK magic to generate a patch for it, but I would hope that you would, > after review, just accept the BK data so that revision history is not > lost.
Oh that is fine. I thought you only had tarballs with your newer code. Thats why I asked for a patch. But we're fine, then.
> The BK data has lots of changelog information since there are 108 changesets > in my local BK tree that are not in your tree. I can provide more details > about any particular changeset that peaks your interest. > > > Are there any known issues with the new code, and what are them. > > For both drivers, I'm currently working on an error recovery handler that > will override the standard one. The standard handler is broken in > so many ways that it would be hard to list them briefly. The short > of it is that if you get a timeout, it may take 20 minutes for you > to recover and recovery is rare. Timeouts occur in almost any system > should you run it long enough, so this is unacceptable. Unfortunately, > having the mid-layer do all of the recovery will likely never work. > The mid-layer can't determine the most likely transaction outstanding > that is causing the timeout whereas the end driver can. I hope to have > the new error handler tested sufficiently for release by the end of this > week. > > For the aic79xx driver, we are going through qualification of new drives > and new drive firmware. There are a few issues that we are investigating > now that should also be resolved this week. > > My suggestion would be to shoot for say next Monday as a good time to > sync up. I can provide whatever material you require for released > changesets today so that you can review all but the latest changes > before Monday.
I plan to release -pre2 today or tomorrow and I think that having your changes in it, even without the new error handler, is worth it for obvious reasons.
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