From: Erich Chen <erich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 1- fix sysfs has more than one value per file 2- PAE issues (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) 3- unblock SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE Signed-off-by: Erich Chen <erich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Areca had tested its arcmsr linux raid driver on ppc machines G5 and it worked fine.
Best Regards Erich Chen----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:01 PM Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:48:58 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:23 +1000 > "Robert Mueller" <robm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The driver went into 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 here: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110754432622498&w=2 > > One and a half years. > > Would the world end if we just merged the dang thing? Not the world perhaps, but I'm unwilling to concede that if a driver author is given a list of major issues and does nothing, then the driver should go in after everyone gets impatient. The rules for inclusion are elastic and include broad leeway for good behaviour, but this would stretch the elasticity way beyond breaking point. The list of issues is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114556263632510I'm under the impression that Erich is under the impression that they've allbeen addressed.Most of the serious stuff is fixed with the exception of: - sysfs has more than one value per file - BE platform support - PAE (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) issues. - SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is ignored. This is wrong. The sync cache in the shutdown notifier isn't sufficient.So this is progress. Erich, can you please fix these things up and then re-review the issues list which I'm maintaining in ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch, make sure that everything has been addressed? If there are some things in those lists which you cannot/will not address then please identify them and give us the reasoning behind your decision.
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