Messages in this thread | | | From | Marc-Christian Petersen <> | Subject | Re: Undo aic7xxx changes | Date | Fri, 30 May 2003 10:19:25 +0200 |
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On Friday 30 May 2003 10:09, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
Hi Stephan,
> I tried plain rc6 now and have to tell you it does not survive a single day > of my usual tests. It freezes during tar from 3ware-driven IDE to > aic-driven SDLT. This is identical to all previous rc (and some pre) > releases of 2.4.21. So far I can tell you that the only thing that has > recently cured this problem is replacing the aic-driver with latest of > justins' releases. > As plain rc6 does definitely not work I will now switch over to > rc6+aic-20030523. Remember that rc3+aic-20030523 already worked quite ok (4 > days test survived). same experience on my boxen (quite much with AIC)
> My personal opinion is a known-to-be-broken 2.4.21 should not be released, > as a lot of people only try/use the releases and therefore an immediately > released 2.4.22-pre1 with justins driver will not be a good solution. ACK!
Maybe we should disable AIC Config option and instead add a comment like:
comment 'For AICXXXX, please go to http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/' comment 'and download the latest tar.gz and unpack these drivers!' comment 'After unpacking, enable Config.in option in drivers/scsi/Config.in'
*scnr* ;)
ciao, Marc
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