Jeff, Good, this was the exact response that I was hoping for, as I've been told to convince Adaptec to drop the binary RAID drivers in favor of helping out dmraid development instead. That process will probably be difficult, but at least I now have incontrovertible proof that nobody will bend over backwards to support them and that dmraid is the way to go. Not that I'm terribly surprised by this. I would, however, like to apologize for all this churlishness. Hopefully some day I won't have to deal with these binary modules altogether, and I won't have to resort to such methods to get vendors to Do the Right Thing(tm). --D (A pity that dmraid doesn't do hostraid right now, otherwise none of this would be necessary.) Jeff Garzik wrote: > This is the correct behavior. Under Linux, the driver should export > only the underlying hardware, and nothing more. This is how all the > SATA controller drivers function, and this is how aic79xx functions. > > Use a tool such as 'dmraid' for vendor-proprietary RAID solutions. > > Your patch is therefore strongly NAK'd. > > Jeff - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
