First a very big thanks to all of u! I have been suffering a serious
lack of sleep problem lately.. i should have noticed that by whom has
been submitting the past 500 fixes and updates!
Quick question, is the driver still consider experimental?? the guys i
work with say it doesn't support sata drives and it's still experimental
so don't use it. And i can't find anything on the state of this driver.
PS. I should have said i dropped that aic94xx-seq.fw in /lib,/lib/firmware,/lib64,/lib64/firmware (still have yet to get this sucker to work)
Thanks much again though for your time!!!
John
Darrick J. Wong wrote:
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
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