Messages in this thread | | | From | "Robert Mueller" <> | Subject | Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration | Date | Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:14:26 +1000 |
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>> > Checking the recent posts it seems that there are two outstanding >> > issues >> > >> > > - 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. >> > >> > That said, we have been using an older version of the driver off the >> > Areca website for some time now with no major issues (other than kernel >> > update problems). >> > >> > Is it possible to get the driver integrated and fix these problems >> > after? >> >> Why not fix them up and submit the corrected driver? If no one wants to >> put the effort into fixing these issues now, why would they do the work >> later?
I believe these final issues have already been fixed:
--- http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115226175822438&w=2
From: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
1- fix sysfs has more than one value per file 2- PAE issues (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) 3- unblock SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
Signed-off-by: Erich Chen erich@areca.com.tw ---
And another one after that that Andrew brought up:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115259088411283&w=2
I see that all of this was in 2.6.18-rc1-mm2
--- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm2/announce.txt
SCSI fixes.
-drivers-scsi-arcmsr-cleanups.patch -areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7.patch -areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7-fix.patch
Folded into areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
+areca-sysfs-fix.patch
Fix breakage due to sysfs API changes. ---
But I don't see anything in 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 or 2.6.18-rc2
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc2/2.6.18-rc2-mm1/announce.txt http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc2
Rob
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