Re: 2.6.6-mm5

Re: 2.6.6-mm5

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware.  From a quick peek it seem to
>   need a little work yet.


It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported 
to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver.  Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew.

Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like 
drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware.

	Jeff

Re: 2.6.6-mm5

[hch]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:09:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >- Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware.  From a quick peek it seem to
> >  need a little work yet.
> 
> 
> It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported 
> to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver.  Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew.
> 
> Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like 
> drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware.

In addition driver submission should always go through linux-scsi.  Please
tell them to submit it to linux-scsi so we can have a public review process
there.

Re: 2.6.6-mm5

[Andrew Morton]

hch@infradead.org wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:09:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >- Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware.  From a quick peek it seem to
> > >  need a little work yet.
> > 
> > 
> > It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported 
> > to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver.  Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew.
> > 
> > Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like 
> > drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware.
> 
> In addition driver submission should always go through linux-scsi.  Please
> tell them to submit it to linux-scsi so we can have a public review process
> there.

Adam did attempt to cc linux-scsi but at 140kbytes the email probably got
spat out.

Re: 2.6.6-mm5

[R. J. Wysocki]

On Saturday 22 of May 2004 11:09, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware.  From a quick peek it seem to
> >   need a little work yet.
>
> It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported
> to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver.  Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew.
>
> Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like
> drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware.

BTW, which 3ware driver would you suggest to use with the 2.6.x now?  I'm 
going to install such a controller in my box ...

RJW

RE: 2.6.6-mm5

[Adam Radford]

Hch,

I did try to CC linux-scsi in the original email for the 3ware driver submission/review,
and 2 emails since then.  None of them went through (no bounce message either).  

Does anybody know what the max email size is?  Is it < 145k?

--
Adam Radford
Staff Software Engineer
AMCC

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 2:23 AM
To: Jeff Garzik
Cc: Andrew Morton; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; SCSI Mailing List
Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm5


On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:09:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >- Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware.  From a quick peek it seem to
> >  need a little work yet.
> 
> 
> It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported 
> to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver.  Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew.
> 
> Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like 
> drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware.

In addition driver submission should always go through linux-scsi.  Please
tell them to submit it to linux-scsi so we can have a public review process
there.
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