Re: Undo aic7xxx changes

Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-30T08:06:39Z

On Friday 30 May 2003 10:09, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

Hi Stephan,

> I tried plain rc6 now and have to tell you it does not survive a single day
> of my usual tests. It freezes during tar from 3ware-driven IDE to
> aic-driven SDLT. This is identical to all previous rc (and some pre)
> releases of 2.4.21. So far I can tell you that the only thing that has
> recently cured this problem is replacing the aic-driver with latest of
> justins' releases.
> As plain rc6 does definitely not work I will now switch over to
> rc6+aic-20030523. Remember that rc3+aic-20030523 already worked quite ok (4
> days test survived).
same experience on my boxen (quite much with AIC)

> My personal opinion is a known-to-be-broken 2.4.21 should not be released,
> as a lot of people only try/use the releases and therefore an immediately
> released 2.4.22-pre1 with justins driver will not be a good solution.
ACK!

Maybe we should disable AIC Config option and instead add a comment like:

comment 'For AICXXXX, please go to http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/'
comment 'and download the latest tar.gz and unpack these drivers!'
comment 'After unpacking, enable Config.in option in drivers/scsi/Config.in'

*scnr* ;)

ciao, Marc