From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161336AbWG2COW (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:14:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161403AbWG2COW (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:14:22 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:61872 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161336AbWG2COV (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:14:21 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 3EMycEZHhkz0tf/+FqQGNLsW8Z9b10F8jnx2/8NgwVHJ 1154139259 Message-ID: <00a701c6b2b4$bb564b50$0e00cb0a@robm> From: "Robert Mueller" To: "Bron Gondwana" , "erich" Cc: "Greg KH" , "Dax Kelson" , "Theodore Bullock" , , "Andrew Morton" References: <25E284CCA9C9A14B89515B116139A94D0C6DF1A4@zrtphxm0.corp.nortel.com> <20060728202749.GA23662@kroah.com> <20060729014801.GB5487@brong.net> Subject: Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:14:26 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> > Checking the recent posts it seems that there are two outstanding >> > issues >> > >> > > - 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. >> > >> > That said, we have been using an older version of the driver off the >> > Areca website for some time now with no major issues (other than kernel >> > update problems). >> > >> > Is it possible to get the driver integrated and fix these problems >> > after? >> >> Why not fix them up and submit the corrected driver? If no one wants to >> put the effort into fixing these issues now, why would they do the work >> later? I believe these final issues have already been fixed: --- http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115226175822438&w=2 From: Erich Chen 1- fix sysfs has more than one value per file 2- PAE issues (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) 3- unblock SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE Signed-off-by: Erich Chen erich@areca.com.tw --- And another one after that that Andrew brought up: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115259088411283&w=2 I see that all of this was in 2.6.18-rc1-mm2 --- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm2/announce.txt SCSI fixes. -drivers-scsi-arcmsr-cleanups.patch -areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7.patch -areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7-fix.patch Folded into areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch +areca-sysfs-fix.patch Fix breakage due to sysfs API changes. --- But I don't see anything in 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 or 2.6.18-rc2 http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc2/2.6.18-rc2-mm1/announce.txt http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc2 Rob