From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Adaptec SAS/SATA device driver [0/27] Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:38:49 +0000 Message-ID: <20050217193849.GA7824@infradead.org> References: <4214D5B1.1060701@adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:60056 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262345AbVBQTiv (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:38:51 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4214D5B1.1060701@adaptec.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Luben Tuikov Cc: SCSI Mailing List On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:34:41PM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote: > Hi, > > Adaptec would like to announce its SAS/SATA Linux device driver > for inclusion into the Linux kernel. > > The driver supports Adaptec's AIC-94XX chip based, eight port SAS > and SATA 64-bit PCI-X, 133MHz ASIC controller. > > The driver source is presented as a broken up BK patch over > the latest scsi-misc-2.6 kernel. The code is compatible > with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. > > The authors of this code will be monitoring the mailing list > for your comments. The driver is the same mess as aic7xxx and aic79xx and everything we told you about it applies there aswell. Also as with the Fusion SAS submission it won't go in until there's a SAS and phy transport class to share common code between drivers.