From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new driver for LSI 3ware 9750 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:45:38 +0100 Message-ID: <200911051545.38102.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <200910231553.09572.bzolnier@gmail.com> 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]:60673 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757910AbZKEOq3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:46:29 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so50689bwz.21 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:46:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200910231553.09572.bzolnier@gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: adam radford Cc: linux-scsi , James Bottomley On Friday 23 October 2009 15:53:09 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > 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? Did you have a chance to look into it? -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz