From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750830AbWDSLFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:05:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750834AbWDSLFQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:05:16 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35749 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830AbWDSLFO (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:05:14 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Martin Honermeyer Subject: Re: 3w-9xxx status in kernel Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:02:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4444D1D5.6070903@rubis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.school-scout.de Mail-Copies-To: maze@strahlungsfrei.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, same problem over here. Why does the newest kernel contain an old version of the 3w-9xxx driver? We are having performance problems using a 9550SX controller. Read throughput (measured with hdparm) is worse than on a Desktop system. We are considering trying to replace it with the newest driver from 3ware.com. Greetz, Martin Stéphane Jourdois wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about 3w-9xxx driver versions : > > 3w-9xxx version in vanilla 2.6.16 is 2.26.02.005 > 3w-9xxx version in 2.6.17-rc1-mm2 is 2.26.02.006 > > but : > 3w-9xxx version in 3ware.com 9.3.0.3 codebase is 2.26.04.007 > > > The documentation with 9.3.0.3 codebase says it will not works with > kernel driver <2.26.04.004. But I observe it works fine with codebase > 9.3.0.2 (the documentation says it should not). > > What is current status of 3w-9xxx driver in 2.6 ? > Will it works on a 9550SX using 9.3.0.3 firmware ? > Could you update documentation about that somewhere, for exemple in > 3w-9xxx.c header ? > > Thanks very much. >