Re: Areca driver recap + status

["erich" <erich@areca.com.tw>]

Dear Robert Mueller,

Does arcmsr still has more than one value per file issue on it?
Maybe I am miss-understand the means of one value per file.
Please tell me the issue, thanks.
About the BE platform, Areca's user on linux sparc platform had ran this 
driver successfuly.
But I attempt to install linux system on ppc platform and run this driver 
for more long time testing this day.
I will patch PAE issue on pci_map_single again and handle SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE 
for your request.

Best Regards
Erich Chen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: <rdunlap@xenotime.net>; <hch@infradead.org>; <erich@areca.com.tw>; 
<brong@fastmail.fm>; <dax@gurulabs.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; 
<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>; "Robert Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status


> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:23 +1000
>> "Robert Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>> > The driver went into 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 here:
>> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110754432622498&w=2
>>
>> One and a half years.
>>
>> Would the world end if we just merged the dang thing?
>
> Not the world perhaps, but I'm unwilling to concede that if a driver
> author is given a list of major issues and does nothing, then the driver
> should go in after everyone gets impatient.
>
> The rules for inclusion are elastic and include broad leeway for good
> behaviour, but this would stretch the elasticity way beyond breaking
> point.
>
> The list of issues is here:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114556263632510
>
> Most of the serious stuff is fixed with the exception of:
>
> - sysfs has more than one value per file
> - BE platform support
> - PAE (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) issues.
> - SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is ignored.  This is wrong.  The sync cache in the
> shutdown notifier isn't sufficient.
>
> At least the sysfs files have to be fixed before it goes in ... unless
> you want to be lynched by Greg?
>
> What I could do is set up a holding tree for all the fixed ... but -mm
> is doing a good job of that at the moment.
>
> James
>
>