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SubjectRE: [ANNOUNCE][RELEASE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.B 1
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>OK, I have started to look at this driver, I have come across one
Good!

>problem, which the attached patch fixes. This patch has been sent
>through the list several times and has been accepted into 2.6.5.
Taken, would be added asap

>1. The Kconfig.megaraid and Makefile.2.6 files from the alpha release
>are not in the beta.
Will be added in next drop

>2. In mraid_pci_blk_pool_destroy(), the caller "guarantees that no more
>memory from the pool is in use", however, they don't have to guarantee
>that pool is not null. Why? In fact, in the code it appears that this
>guarantee is also made...
Now you are reading between the lines :-) Just consider clib to be
independently implemented and has some safety checks

>3. I am not sure what the local conventions on this are, but in
>megaraid_alloc_cmd_packets() if the first allocation fails then we
>return straight away, in all other cases we do a goto fail_alloc_cmds;
Accepted..

>4. Also a consistency issue: In megaraid_mbox_mm_cmd() we handle the
>deletion of a logical drive specially, by calling
>megaraid_mbox_del_logdrv(), which just ensures that the drives are
Good catch.

Thanks!
-Atul Mukker
LSI Logic
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