From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: Broken SCSI code in the BK tree (was: 2.5.59-mm8) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:19:36 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030207041936.GA26189@krispykreme> References: <211570000.1044508407@[10.10.2.4]> <265170000.1044564655@[10.10.2.4]> <275930000.1044570608@[10.10.2.4]> <1044573927.2332.100.camel@mulgrave> <20030206172434.A15559@beaverton.ibm.com> <293060000.1044583265@[10.10.2.4]> <20030206182502.A16364@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030206230544.E19868@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030206230544.E19868@redhat.com> To: Patrick Mansfield , "Martin J. Bligh" , James Bottomley , mikeand@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: andmike@us.ibm.com List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Hi, > If I understand correctly, Matthew Jacob's latest isp driver set drives > *all* qlogic hardware (or at least all the older stuff like the qlogicisp > driver drives). I would much prefer that people simply test out Matthew's > driver and use it instead. In fact, if it's ready for 2.5 kernel use, I > would strongly recommend that it be considered as a possible replacement > in the linux kernel for the default driver on all qlogic cards not handled > by the new qla2x00 driver version 6 (DaveM may have objections to that > related to sparc if Matthew's driver isn't sparc friendly, but I don't > know of any other reason not to switch over). I had a bunch of problems with the in kernel and vendor qlogic drivers on my ppc64 box. Matt Jacob's driver worked out of the box. Davem sounded positive last time I asked him about it. I did a quick forward port to 2.5 a month or two ago, sounds like we should work to get it in the kernel. There are some rough edges but Mike kindly offered to lend a hand here. Anton