Re: adaptec 2120S software under RedHat 8.0 and FC2

[Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>]

Hello,

Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
 > [...]
>>note that if adaptec simply opensourced their managment tools we wouldn't
>>have this problem at all. I wonder why Adaptec did that for the old
>>i2o-based controllers but not aacraid.  
> Oh yes, that, worked hard on the powers-that-be to permit this. Could
> not release a substantial majority of it because it would violate
> licensed libraries (Zinc, being one of them, I am sorry to admit). So we
> release the engine and the raidutil. No logger, no remote communication
> engine, no GUI and no browser engine either. It was the best we could
> do.
> Once released, and under a BSD license, the open source community failed
> to contribute one change to the sources. All it did was permit the tools
> to be packaged, archived and to continue in-perpetuity when
> compatibility libraries failed to work on newer installations.

Hmmm, IMHO that's not 100% correct... It's true that currently there is 
no new version. I'm working on the 64-bit version and a rewrite of the 
kernel-interface to get rid of the ioctl's... Because i'm still working 
on the interface, i haven't released both the kernel as well as the 
raidutils yet. But you could look into subversion to see that there *is* 
developement. Also IMHO it is be better to provide documentation for how 
to program the controller instead of releasing the source of the 
management tool itself.

 > [...]



Best regards,


Markus Lidel
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