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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@umr.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uetrecht@umr.edu
Subject: Re: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 series cards
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:26:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021218182618.GA30832@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021218181052.GA26465@umr.edu>

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:10:54PM -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
 > According to 3Ware, the driver in the 2.4.x and (I assume) 2.5.x is no
 > longer compatible with the 6xxx series cards. 
 > I don't know what we'll do with this situation when we move to 2.6, cause
 > right now, it looks like we are completely screwed. The old driver 
 > obviously will not compile on 2.6 since the API's have changed. 

Any idea at which point the 2.5 driver stopped working ?
It may not be that much work to bring that version up to date as
a 3ware-old.c driver in a worse-case scenario.

This would be huge code duplication however, and would be much
better fixed by having the driver detect which card its running
on, and 'do the right thing' wrt which firmware it needs.

		Dave

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-18 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-18 18:10 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 series cards Nathan Neulinger
2002-12-18 18:26 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-12-18 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-19  1:11   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-18 18:29 Neulinger, Nathan
2002-12-18 18:45 Neulinger, Nathan

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