From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] MPT Fusion driver update Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:22:50 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031111092249.A5879@infradead.org> References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57035A9E21@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:12561 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263448AbTKKJWx (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:22:53 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E57035A9E21@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com>; from emoore@lsil.com on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:17:36AM -0500 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Moore, Eric Dean" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 10:17:36AM -0500, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > Christoph, > > Can you let me know what the *real problems* are with the > driver. Please read the replies to previous driver updates, like the error handling problems worked around in 2.4 by using the old EH, the total lack of module refcounting in 2.4 and the data corruption issues Andi Kleen sees on x86_64. Just search the list updates for fusion.. > In addition, its going to be very difficult to > inline source into email clients. The problem that I see > are the tabs and over 80 characters per line. I've tried > a handful of email clients, non work mutt seems to work..