Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:09:10 +0100 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: Adaptec aic79xx driver status |
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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.
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