From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:29:54 +0000 Subject: Re: QLogic drivers in 2.4 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:20:25AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Well, that someone is qlogic. ah - even better. > But I don's see why it should go into the ia64 tree. It shouldn't - should be mainline submittal. > Once qlogic got the driver in shape it and/or the feral > driver should go into mainline. I exchanged email with Matthew Jacob in Jan 2003 and data corruption occurred in < 10 minutes of functional testing. (Sorry Jes, I remembered wrong - it wasn't a panic). I could add retesting this driver to my TODO list if someone thinks it's worthwhile. feral.com driver stopped being interesting to me becuase the qlogic drivers have usually passed functional testing (found very few issues). I find stylistic "bugs" easier to fix than correctness issues... hth, grant