Douglas Gilbert wrote: > It would be reasonable to assume that Luben is the maintainer > of this code although the MAINTAINERS file has no entry > for the aic94xx driver. > > This code was effectively removed from Luben's control > about 18 months ago and has passed through several sets > of hands since then. None of the people concerned want > to identify themselves in the source or explain > what has been done in writing. Why? Laziness, in my case. I suppose it would be useful to document the fact that I've made changes to libsas/aic94xx. Though the "what has been done" part ... I was hoping the commit messages would suffice. > The existing copyright notices should remain but what > about the massive changes to that driver in 2006? > Where is the indication of whom John should contact? > > Perhaps something like: > "For maintenance of this driver contact > linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" Alexis can answer this part. > FYI John, Luben maintains his own version of the > aic94xx and that version holds the sequencer firmware > in a binary blob within the driver. Due to kernel policy, > that blob was moved to separate file by someone else. The > error that you are reporting suggests that the firmware > file for the aic94xx cannot be found. On my system > the file that you may be missing looks like this: > # ls -l /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 22622 Aug 29 17:36 /lib/firmware/aic94xx-seq.fw http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jejb/aic94xx-seq.fw --D - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
