From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new driver for LSI 3ware 9750 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:53:09 +0200 Message-ID: <200910231553.09572.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:59139 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751725AbZJWNyT (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:54:19 -0400 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so909465bwz.21 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:54:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: adam radford Cc: linux-scsi , James Bottomley Hi, On Wednesday 21 October 2009 02:22:15 adam radford wrote: > James, linux-scsi, > > This patch adds a new driver '3w-sas' for the LSI 3ware 9750 6Gb/s > SAS/SATA-RAID controllers. > > - I have tested this code to work on 32-bit, 64-bit, PAE, PPC-64. > - This code contains a legacy interface that works with open-source > smartmontools software at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Radford This driver seems to contain some code which could be shared with 3w-9xxx driver. Would it be possible to move the common code to mini library shared by both drivers to avoid needless duplication? -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz