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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:51:00 +0000
Subject: Re: future of drivers/fc4/
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:46:27PM +0200, Matthias Schulz wrote:
> I saw your posts on vger.kernel.org but it doesn't seem to find a lot of 
> reaction there.
> I do have a lot of hardware to test this (S1000E, SSA 100, E5000, 
> A5000). A while back, I had the 2.2.20 kernel running with my SS1000E 
> and the SSA 100 attached. Worked fine. But any version of Linux later 
> than 2.2.20 didn't do it.
> Could it be, that the mayjor changes from 2.2 -> 2.4 (SMP, scsi etc.) 
> are the REAL reason for that ?
> I don't think it has to do woth hardware issues other than having the 
> right firmwar on either the soc-board (1.33) and the SSA (3.??).
> Did you get any further ?
> Did you have it running with 2.2.??

I'm trying to arrange for a recovery from the changes between 2.2 and
2.4 as well as those between 2.4 and 2.6... this will not be trivial to
do. Testing and help coding would be appreciated.


-- wli