From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Scarpa Subject: Re: Please help if u can. Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:32:51 -0500 Message-ID: <45DC9053.10908@tlchosting.com> References: <45DB9D89.7030804@tlchosting.com> <45DBD6CF.7010309@torque.net> <45DBE495.6050706@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.tlchosting.com ([209.170.84.20]:3013 "HELO mail.tlchosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422780AbXBUSdQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:33:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45DBE495.6050706@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Alexis Bruemmer First a very big thanks to all of u! I have been suffering a serious lack of sleep problem lately.. i should have noticed that by whom has been submitting the past 500 fixes and updates! Quick question, is the driver still consider experimental?? the guys i work with say it doesn't support sata drives and it's still experimental so don't use it. And i can't find anything on the state of this driver. PS. I should have said i dropped that aic94xx-seq.fw in /lib,/lib/firmware,/lib64,/lib64/firmware (still have yet to get this sucker to work) Thanks much again though for your time!!! John Darrick J. Wong wrote: > 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 >