----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Taranov" <ttaranov@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: any chance for areca raid driver patch in FC4?
the mm patch is broken out into pieces so that it's easier to apply it
selectively, if need it (and not that the driver is "broken" somehow,
if that's what you imply - it's the latest vendor certified driver
that works just fine).
Anyway, I was just checking... I guess I'm then stuck having to
recompile my kernel anytime I want to patch it. kinda sux.
On 5/23/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 00:22 -0400, Tim Taranov wrote:
> I don't really know how the fedora build cycle works but is there any
> chance the follwing driver patch could be included into FC4?
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc4/2.6.12-rc4-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
>
> It's kindof a bugger for me to have to recompile it every time just
> because I want it in the OS...
It needs to be come part of the main kernel. Only then will it be
included into Fedora proper. There must be a reason it's been
'broken-out'....
Tim,
Add a bug report to bugzilla and provide the patch as a 'solution'. This
makes it easy for the kernel patch to show up in FC4.
Jim