From: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"Tarte, Robert" <Robert_Tarte@adaptec.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: request to add aic94xx to -mm
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:55:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428175521.GB18383@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060428172736.GA11321@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:54:05AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Could you send any bugs found back to linux-scsi (not the kernel
> > bugzilla)?
>
> not a bug strictly speaking, but it should stop including the firmware
> blob and use request_firmware, similar to the discussion we had about
> qla2xxx recently. It would be even nicer if adaptec continued publishing
> their sequencer code as with aic7xxx and aic79xx which look remarkably
> similar, of course.
I added Rob to this thread so he could comment on this.
It would also be good before we put another card through this process that
at least a few distros have the request_firmware infrastructure fully
functional. I have seen indications that there where a few bumps in the
road in getting this working.
-andmike
--
Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-28 16:54 request to add aic94xx to -mm James Bottomley
2006-04-28 17:16 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-04-28 17:31 ` Mike Anderson
2006-04-28 17:31 ` James Bottomley
2006-04-28 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-28 17:55 ` Mike Anderson [this message]
2006-04-28 17:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-02 7:10 ` Hannes Reinecke
2006-04-28 18:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-28 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-02 15:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-05-03 14:02 ` James Bottomley
2006-04-28 17:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060428175521.GB18383@us.ibm.com \
--to=andmike@us.ibm.com \
--cc=James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com \
--cc=Robert_Tarte@adaptec.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com \
--cc=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox