Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:34:09 +0200 (EET) | From | Sergey Kubushin <> | Subject | Re: GDTH driver |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Achim Leubner wrote:
> On 18 Jan 00 at 11:47, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Achim Leubner wrote: > > > > Hi, Achim! > > > Hi Sergey! > > > > I did CC: to you several times about your GDTH driver does NOT work at all > > with 2.3.xx. Alas, no answer had been received so far... > > > > I'm in touch with Eric Youngdale trying to get the bugs in gdth drivers > > fixed. D'ya share our efforts as a maintainer of a buggy driver? May be I'm > > wrong, but I think that it's kinda wrong to ask about the performance of a > > driver which does NOT work at all... > > > The driver works without any problems with kernel 2.2.xx. and > with 2.0.xx. Most of our customers use 2.2.xx and they need a good > performance. That's the reason of my performance question. > > > > Please look into 2.3.xx sources. The last revision mark from you is > > > > === Cut === > > * Revision 1.23 1999/03/26 09:12:31 achim > > === Cut === > > > > This is exactly the same driver which had been debugged by you for 2.2.x with > > my assistance (hdr_channel set to 0, CD-ROM data corruption etc., d'ya > > recall?). There is no sign of life from ICP Vortex since this victory, gdth > > in 2.3.xx seems to be developed by different people and not maintained at > > all.. > > > On our web site http://www.icp-vortex.com you find a driver with the > following revision mark: > Revision 1.30 1999/11/02 13:42:39 achim > This is the newest driver 1.17 for kernel 2.2.x and this driver is > maintained. You find this driver in kernel 2.2.14.
OK, it's maintained, but not developed...
> > Please let me know, is this an official position of ICP Vortex not to mess > > with development kernels doing only most necessary changes for, sorry for an > > expression, "stable" ones? > > > You are wrong. I try to make all necessary changes for the > development kernels too. But I had much other work in the last weeks. > I will check the driver as far as possible. I think that changes are > necessary in the /proc interface only.
They are not enough. Eric did already make necessary changes and kernel does NOT crash any more when cat'ing /proc/scsi/gdth/0. But it does hung occasionally with processes stuck in D state. System is alive, but there is not responce from disks hooked to gdt controller. Neither emergency sync nor unmount from SysRQ work. All another options do.
> Because you have much experiences with 2.3.xx, help is appreciated.
I'm ready to help in any way I can to get the bugs fixed. Pls let me know how can I...
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