From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mark Lord <lsml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID v.96 for 2.6.9-rc2
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:26:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41508055.6000401@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41507F21.8010800@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>
>> Where is this seperate RAID management module? :)
>>
>> Typically we do not add kernel hooks to non-public stuff...
>
>
> It is still under development. The vendor will likely
> distribute it in source code form with the product installation disk,
> since it is likely to undergo far more frequent updates that the
> base kernel driver.
>
> This allows them to decouple the portion not needed at boot-time,
> from the more difficult to change kernel code that has to be
> there to boot the system on RAID.
Regardless, if the RAID code isn't in the kernel or otherwise posted
somewhere publicly and GPL'd, the hooks are unlikely to be accepted.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-21 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 17:35 [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID v.96 for 2.6.9-rc2 Mark Lord
2004-09-21 17:58 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-21 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-21 19:21 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-21 19:26 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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