Messages in this thread | | | From | "Mukker, Atul" <> | Subject | RE: [SUBJECT CHANGE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.0-al pha1 | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:05:43 -0500 |
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All,
Thanks a lot for the valuable feedback. The general consensus is against a single driver for different class of controllers. This would put a strain on our applications, which expect all the controllers to be exported from single driver's private ioctl interface.
With multiple adapters, applications would need to open multiple handles. This would somewhat complicate things for them. But keeping in line with general expectations, we would fork the drivers for different class of controllers now.
I have not yet gotten strong feelings against a single driver for lk 2.4 and lk 2.6. If this is true, we would like to keep single driver for both kernels - since lk 2.4 still has a big lifecycle.
For lk 2.6, the controllers would be detected PCI ordered and because of existing lk 2.4 setups, driver would re-order the registration based on boot controller.
Best Regards -Atul Mukker LSI Logic Corporation - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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