Re: request to add aic94xx to -mm

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Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:54:05AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Could you send any bugs found back to linux-scsi (not the kernel
> > bugzilla)?
> 
> not a bug strictly speaking, but it should stop including the firmware
> blob and use request_firmware, similar to the discussion we had about
> qla2xxx recently.  It would be even nicer if adaptec continued publishing
> their sequencer code as with aic7xxx and aic79xx which look remarkably
> similar, of course.

I added Rob to this thread so he could comment on this.

It would also be good before we put another card through this process that
at least a few distros have the request_firmware infrastructure fully
functional. I have seen indications that there where a few bumps in the
road in getting this working.

-andmike
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