From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm5 Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 05:22:37 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040522092237.GA3417@infradead.org> References: <20040522013636.61efef73.akpm@osdl.org> <40AF18E7.4040509@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.217.7]:30214 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264936AbUEVJWt (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 05:22:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40AF18E7.4040509@pobox.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, SCSI Mailing List On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:09:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >- Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware. From a quick peek it seem to > > need a little work yet. > > > It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported > to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver. Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew. > > Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like > drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware. In addition driver submission should always go through linux-scsi. Please tell them to submit it to linux-scsi so we can have a public review process there.