From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: request to add aic94xx to -mm Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:55:21 -0700 Message-ID: <20060428175521.GB18383@us.ibm.com> References: <1146243246.5251.29.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060428172736.GA11321@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:30399 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751107AbWD1Rz0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:55:26 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3SHtP0n001412 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:55:25 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.8) with ESMTP id k3SHtPOk106478 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:55:25 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k3SHtOPe007078 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:55:25 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060428172736.GA11321@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , "Tarte, Robert" Cc: James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , Andrew Vasquez Christoph Hellwig 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