Messages in this thread | | | From | "erich" <> | Subject | Re: Areca driver recap + status | Date | Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:47:47 +0800 |
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Dear Robert Mueller,
Does arcmsr still has more than one value per file issue on it? Maybe I am miss-understand the means of one value per file. Please tell me the issue, thanks. About the BE platform, Areca's user on linux sparc platform had ran this driver successfuly. But I attempt to install linux system on ppc platform and run this driver for more long time testing this day. I will patch PAE issue on pci_map_single again and handle SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE for your request.
Best Regards Erich Chen ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: <rdunlap@xenotime.net>; <hch@infradead.org>; <erich@areca.com.tw>; <brong@fastmail.fm>; <dax@gurulabs.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>; "Robert Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:48 PM Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:23 +1000 >> "Robert Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> >> > The driver went into 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 here: >> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110754432622498&w=2 >> >> One and a half years. >> >> Would the world end if we just merged the dang thing? > > Not the world perhaps, but I'm unwilling to concede that if a driver > author is given a list of major issues and does nothing, then the driver > should go in after everyone gets impatient. > > The rules for inclusion are elastic and include broad leeway for good > behaviour, but this would stretch the elasticity way beyond breaking > point. > > The list of issues is here: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114556263632510 > > Most of the serious stuff is fixed with the exception of: > > - sysfs has more than one value per file > - BE platform support > - PAE (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) issues. > - SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is ignored. This is wrong. The sync cache in the > shutdown notifier isn't sufficient. > > At least the sysfs files have to be fixed before it goes in ... unless > you want to be lynched by Greg? > > What I could do is set up a holding tree for all the fixed ... but -mm > is doing a good job of that at the moment. > > James > >
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