From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: Please help if u can. Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:20:05 -0800 Message-ID: <45DBE495.6050706@us.ibm.com> References: <45DB9D89.7030804@tlchosting.com> <45DBD6CF.7010309@torque.net> Reply-To: "Darrick J. Wong" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:56383 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751132AbXBUGUK (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:20:10 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1L6K8iE027440 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:20:08 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l1L6K8xE250588 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:20:08 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1L6K7Fg020453 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:20:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45DBD6CF.7010309@torque.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: John Scarpa Cc: dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Alexis Bruemmer Douglas Gilbert wrote: > It would be reasonable to assume that Luben is the maintainer > of this code although the MAINTAINERS file has no entry > for the aic94xx driver. > > This code was effectively removed from Luben's control > about 18 months ago and has passed through several sets > of hands since then. None of the people concerned want > to identify themselves in the source or explain > what has been done in writing. Why? Laziness, in my case. I suppose it would be useful to document the fact that I've made changes to libsas/aic94xx. Though the "what has been done" part ... I was hoping the commit messages would suffice. > The existing copyright notices should remain but what > about the massive changes to that driver in 2006? > Where is the indication of whom John should contact? > > Perhaps something like: > "For maintenance of this driver contact > linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" Alexis can answer this part. > FYI John, Luben maintains his own version of the > aic94xx and that version holds the sequencer firmware > in a binary blob within the driver. Due to kernel policy, > that blob was moved to separate file by someone else. The > error that you are reporting suggests that the firmware > file for the aic94xx cannot be found. On my system > the file that you may be missing looks like this: > # ls -l /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 22622 Aug 29 17:36 /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jejb/aic94xx-seq.fw --D