Re: Undo aic7xxx changes

Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-05-09T09:54:29Z

On Thu, 08 May 2003 18:45:42 -0600
"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> wrote:

> > Hi,
> > [...]
> > Justin, unfortunately I can't even THINK about updating aic7xxx to your
> > new driver at the current release stage. I will do so in the 2.4.22.
>
> [...]
> Again, if you have concerns about the aic7xxx or aic79xx drivers, my
> mail box is always open. Waiting to contact me until the last minute
> where I can only sit on the sidelines and watch another train wreck is
> not the best way to ensure that the drivers function correctly in 2.4.X.
>
> What this basically boils down to is trust. If you don't trust me,
> tell me how I can build that trust. Without it, I can only continue
> to tell most people that contact me with bug reports, "It's already
> fixed in the official driver. You can pull the latest from ..."

Justin, just to complete the picture: as I wrote some days ago concerning your
hint to "use the latest from ..." your latest driver does not complete booting
on (at least) my system but freezes - which I wrote to LKML. I have not yet
heard
anything about this issue. You cannot expect to include a newer driver which
performs obviously worse in some cases.
"Worse" here means "fails" and not "performs bad". Marcelos' decision on the
topic looks pretty reasonable to me...

Regards,
Stephan