From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268383AbUI2NKK (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268370AbUI2NKI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:10:08 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:33540 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268383AbUI2NJM (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:09:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:09:10 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrea Carpani Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Adaptec aic79xx driver status Message-ID: <20040929140909.A12373@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrea Carpani , Linux Kernel References: <415AB021.70605@criticalpath.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <415AB021.70605@criticalpath.net>; from andrea.carpani@criticalpath.net on Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:52:49PM +0200 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:52:49PM +0200, Andrea Carpani wrote: > As of linux 2.6.8.1 the aic79xx driver included is version 1.3.11 which > dates back to July 11, 2003. > > On my Tyan B2881 the used scsi controller has a lot of problems: as soon > as I try to transfer some data I get a frozen scsi subsystem and a dump > in the syslog messages. > > I hope to be able to solve these problems by using the new driver found > at http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ > > My question is: why isn't the new version included in the main tree? Because it's broken in various ways. We're working with Adaptec to get the fixes merged but not the bogus parts. But as Justin didn't cooperate the new engineer in his position has a hard time to untangle the mess, so it'll take a while.