Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:22:17 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: Adaptec AIC7XXX v 6.0.6 BETA Released |
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:15:36 Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > daptec SCSI HBA device driver for the Linux Operating System > To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > cc: > Fcc: +outbox > Subject: Adaptec AIC7XXX v6.0.6 BETA Released > ------- > After several months of testing and refinement, the Adaptec > sponsored aic7xxx driver is now entering Beta testing. Although > still missing domain validation and the last bits of cardbus > support, there are no known issues with the driver. I would > encourage all users of card supported by this driver to try the > new code and submit feedback. Patches for late 2.2.X, 2.3.99 > and 2.4.0 are provided in the driver distribution. For those > of you building the driver as a module, take note that the module > name is now "aic7xxx_mod" rather than "aic7xxx". > > As always, the most recent distribution is available here: >
I tried it against clean 2.2.18 and patches did not work. Some drawbacks: - the patch adds config info for AIX7XXX in the top level Makefile, instead of in the Makefile in the scsi dir. - The subdir for aic7xxx has not a Makefile, or at least it is not created with the patches for 2.2.18. - The structure of the driver (all files inside a subdir) has changed, so you get the old files still there.
I am going to try to clean up the thigs to make the driver easily updated: - First thing is to move all files in the actual 5.1.31 to INSIDE the dir and change the scsi/Makefile to build it as a SUB_DIR. - Change names of files: aic7xxx.o has to be built from many *.c, so you should rename the aic7xxx.c to something like aic7xxx_main.c. - Then you have the aic7xxx subdir and you can add a similar aic7xxx-6 subdir and even add an exclusive option to build one or the other, the second marked EXPERIMENTAL.
Couple o' questions: - Is there any easy way to move/rename files with a diff, or just diff from /dev/null or empty files .org and patch with -E ? - Is there any keywork for Config.in files to do exclusion between drivers or just if's ? Have to look for similar drivers. Any hint ?
Thanks.
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