From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrea Carpani <andrea.carpani@criticalpath.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adaptec aic79xx driver status
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:09:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040929140909.A12373@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415AB021.70605@criticalpath.net>; from andrea.carpani@criticalpath.net on Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:52:49PM +0200
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:52:49PM +0200, Andrea Carpani wrote:
> As of linux 2.6.8.1 the aic79xx driver included is version 1.3.11 which
> dates back to July 11, 2003.
>
> On my Tyan B2881 the used scsi controller has a lot of problems: as soon
> as I try to transfer some data I get a frozen scsi subsystem and a dump
> in the syslog messages.
>
> I hope to be able to solve these problems by using the new driver found
> at http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
>
> My question is: why isn't the new version included in the main tree?
Because it's broken in various ways. We're working with Adaptec to get
the fixes merged but not the bogus parts. But as Justin didn't cooperate
the new engineer in his position has a hard time to untangle the mess, so
it'll take a while.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-29 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 12:52 Adaptec aic79xx driver status Andrea Carpani
2004-09-29 13:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-09-29 13:34 ` Andrea Carpani
2004-09-29 13:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
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