On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 10:55 -0700, Mike Anderson wrote: > 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. that's also a chicken-and-egg problem. Sometimes someone needs to start to make an omelette ;) - : 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
