From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xose Vazquez Perez Subject: Re: aix79xx driver status Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:52:57 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: Xose Vazquez Perez Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.203]:698 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030245AbVIVJw7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:52:59 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so29120nfc for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Age Strand wrote: > As far as I understand you the aic7Yxx kernel driver tree is very much > alive and kicking. > So what's the deal with the version numbers on the aic79xx driver? It > has stayed put on 1.1.13 since 2003. Does that mean that there hasn't > been any new releases of this driver since then? > I seem to recall seeing submitted patches to aic79xx on the list as late > as 2004. What's become of those? Is this just a case of patches going in > but version numbering not being updated? aic7Yxx drivers have been maintained very badly in the _kernel_ . Outside, Adaptec people has their own tree. You can get the latest ADAPTEC patches from: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?a=108731197000012&r=5&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?a=108731197000012&r=4&w=2 under the subject "patch XX/28] Sync up drivers/scsi/aic7xxx". But maybe, there are newer patches inside Adaptec, ask it to Luben Tuikov This is a _very critical_ driver and I hope someone take it back to life again.