Re: [PATCH][BUGFIX] : megaraid patch for 2.10.1 (irq disable bug fix)

Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-24T14:58:59Z

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Mukker, Atul wrote:
> > > Could we have a later version than 2.00.3 in 2.6 please?
> We are in process of releasing a unified driver, which will natively support
> the 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels.

In the past, this has generally been a very bad idea. It's led to some
excessively ugly drivers (see aic7xxx for one) and generally doesn't work
terribly well. If you insist on going down this road, could you at least
make sure it's written to the newest 2.6 APIs and every other supported
kernel version emulates the 2.6 APIs? The awful "kernel neutral API"s
used in some drivers really suck.

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