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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:14:26 +1000 From: "Robert Mueller" <robm@...tmail.fm> To: "Bron Gondwana" <brong@...tmail.fm>, "erich" <erich@...ca.com.tw> Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, "Dax Kelson" <dax@...ulabs.com>, "Theodore Bullock" <tbullock@...tel.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration >> > Checking the recent posts it seems that there are two outstanding >> > issues >> > >> > > - 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. >> > >> > That said, we have been using an older version of the driver off the >> > Areca website for some time now with no major issues (other than kernel >> > update problems). >> > >> > Is it possible to get the driver integrated and fix these problems >> > after? >> >> Why not fix them up and submit the corrected driver? If no one wants to >> put the effort into fixing these issues now, why would they do the work >> later? I believe these final issues have already been fixed: --- http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115226175822438&w=2 From: Erich Chen <erich@...ca.com.tw> 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@...ca.com.tw --- And another one after that that Andrew brought up: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115259088411283&w=2 I see that all of this was in 2.6.18-rc1-mm2 --- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm2/announce.txt SCSI fixes. -drivers-scsi-arcmsr-cleanups.patch -areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7.patch -areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7-fix.patch Folded into areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch +areca-sysfs-fix.patch Fix breakage due to sysfs API changes. --- But I don't see anything in 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 or 2.6.18-rc2 http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc2/2.6.18-rc2-mm1/announce.txt http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc2 Rob - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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