From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268283AbUI2NnF (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:43:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268447AbUI2Nj7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:39:59 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:36356 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268372AbUI2Ngq (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:36:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:36:44 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrea Carpani Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Adaptec aic79xx driver status Message-ID: <20040929143644.A12725@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrea Carpani , Linux Kernel References: <415AB021.70605@criticalpath.net> <20040929140909.A12373@infradead.org> <415AB9F3.4050803@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: <415AB9F3.4050803@criticalpath.net>; from andrea.carpani@criticalpath.net on Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:34:43PM +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 03:34:43PM +0200, Andrea Carpani wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm trying it right now and it looks as if the freeze errors are gone. > What do you mean by "broken in various ways"? Would it be unwise to use > it in a production environment? we had problem reports for various cards, and lots of problems with error handling during load and unload. If it properly loads and unloads for you and the kernel driver doesn't work just use it. We hope to have a more update driver in 2.6.10.