On Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 13:07 +0200, Sven Köhler <skoehler@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Yes the gdth driver passed an open hart surgery in kernel 2.6.24. The bad thing >> about it is that all three of the Coders that did that did not have any HW to work >> on. One of them is me. We did cry for tester for a long time but no one came forward. > > All i'd like to ask is WHY!? > WHY such a big open heart surgery? > OK, you have your reasons. > >> Could you test patches for us? first thing would be to enable debug output patch below. > > The machine is still production. It will be replaced by a 64bit system > with an AACRAID card some time in the future. Then, i could maybe test > patches on the old machine. But unfortunatly, it's not my machine. It's > just administrated by me. And i don't know, what's exactly is the future > of it. > >> If you absolutely need a 2.6.24 kernel, + gdth in a production system you could >> checkout the 2.6.23 driver and compile. The old driver will work the same in 2.6.24. >> It will not however even compile in 2.6.25-rcx. > > I see. Thanks for the hint. Would be an alternative. Actually, i don't > need 2.6.24 - but if something security related is fixed, then i'm not > able to move on to 2.6.24. And i'm using Gentoo. There's not really a > kernel maintained by the distribution. > >> If any one wants to send me a card that uses the gdth driver, I will be very happy >> to debug this card, and return it once I'm done. > > I don't think, it's a seperate card, that i could send you. It's some > 19" rack server with such a card on-board, i think. > > > So it don't see much opportunity for me to test patched and stuff :-( > Thanks, Perhaps someone else then. Anyone with gdth HW that can test patches? Your lspci said: "Intel Corporation RAID Controller" Matthew is there a gdth card lying around in an Intel lab near you? James do we need to mark gdth BROKEN for 2.6.24 and higher? Boaz - 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
