Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 2004 14:49:20 -0600 | From | "Justin T. Gibbs" <> | Subject | Re: aic79xx trouble |
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> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:10:12PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >> > The Adaptec Ultra320 cards (aic79xx) do not work reliably on Tyan Thunder >> > motherboards. >> >> The U320 chips likely work a lot better now if you use driver version 2.0.12. >> The AMD chipsets seem to screw up split completions, and this version of >> the driver avoids the issue for the most common case of triggering the >> bug (transaction completion DMAs) by never crossing an ADB boundary with >> a single DMA. > > Justin, > > Just out of curiosity, would you care to submit small fixes in separate > patches instead of a huge patch over a full -pre series > (2.4.28-pre for example) ?
If you look at the bksend output from my site, it is broken up into lots of smaller changes. These changes are not tied to a particular 2.4.X revision - they were made and released in response to driver bug reports and coded so the driver will operate in just about any 2.4.X kernel - customers can't wait for the next kernel to be released or the community to enter a "pre" phase of development.
As for submitting "small fixes in separate patches", the fixes are whatever size they come out to be after they are implemented. I always choose the fix based on correctness and maintainability, not on whether or not I can break it up into small patches for submission. In other-words, the size of the changes have nothing to do with their merit.
What it seems you are asking for is more frequent submissions. While that is possible, I don't know that it is in the best interest of the community. I submit a new update to kernel.org after changes have had a time to settle and have been validated by Adaptec and several of its customers. Unless the failure is going to be seen in wide-spread use and the fix is so obvious that it does not need rigorous validation, I prefer to wait and submit a known quantity. The latest drivers on my website have had a sufficient level of testing for me to now feel comfortable with pushing the changes to kernel.org.
> Are distros using your updates ?
I believe that SuSE is merging these drivers into their next 2.6.X based release.
-- Justin
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