Messages in this thread | | | From | "erich" <> | Subject | Re: Areca driver recap + status | Date | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:41:53 +0800 |
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From: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
1- fix sysfs has more than one value per file 2- PAE issues (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) 3- unblock SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
Signed-off-by: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
Areca had tested its arcmsr linux raid driver on ppc machines G5 and it worked fine.
Best Regards Erich Chen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org> To: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: <rdunlap@xenotime.net>; <hch@infradead.org>; <erich@areca.com.tw>; <brong@fastmail.fm>; <dax@gurulabs.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>; <robm@fastmail.fm> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:01 PM Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:48:58 -0500 > James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:23 +1000 >> > "Robert Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> > >> > > The driver went into 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 here: >> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110754432622498&w=2 >> > >> > One and a half years. >> > >> > Would the world end if we just merged the dang thing? >> >> Not the world perhaps, but I'm unwilling to concede that if a driver >> author is given a list of major issues and does nothing, then the driver >> should go in after everyone gets impatient. >> >> The rules for inclusion are elastic and include broad leeway for good >> behaviour, but this would stretch the elasticity way beyond breaking >> point. >> >> The list of issues is here: >> >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114556263632510 > > I'm under the impression that Erich is under the impression that they've > all > been addressed. > >> Most of the serious stuff is fixed with the exception of: >> >> - sysfs has more than one value per file >> - BE platform support >> - PAE (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) issues. >> - SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is ignored. This is wrong. The sync cache in the >> shutdown notifier isn't sufficient. > > So this is progress. > > Erich, can you please fix these things up and then re-review the issues > list which I'm maintaining in > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch, > make sure that everything has been addressed? > > If there are some things in those lists which you cannot/will not address > then please identify them and give us the reasoning behind your decision. > [unhandled content-type:application/x-compressed] | |