Re: [Kernel 2.5] Qlogic 2x00 driver

Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-15T19:24:40Z

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On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:20, Simon Roscic wrote:
> hi,
>
> as the feature freeze of 2.5 comes close, i want to ask if the driver for
> the qlogic sanblade 2200/2300 series of hba's will be included in 2.5 ...
> are there any plan's to do so ? has it been discussed before ?
>
> i ask because i use those hba's together with ibm's fastt500 storage system,
> and it will be nice to have this driver in the default kernel ...
>
> i use version 5.36.3 of the qlogic 2x00 driver in production
> (vanilla kernel 2.4.17 + qlogic 2x00 driver v5.36.3) since may 2002
> and i never had any problems with this driver ...

Oh so you haven't notices how it buffer-overflows the kernel stack, how
it has major stack hog issues, how it keeps the io request lock (and
interrupts disabled) for a WEEK ?

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