From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751103AbWF0Jr7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:47:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751306AbWF0Jr7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:47:59 -0400 Received: from 220-130-178-143.HINET-IP.hinet.net ([220.130.178.143]:54777 "EHLO areca.com.tw") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751070AbWF0Jr6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:47:58 -0400 Message-ID: <003701c699ce$c126b550$b100a8c0@erich2003> From: "erich" To: "James Bottomley" Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "\"Robert Mueller\"" , , , , , , References: <09be01c695b3$2ed8c2c0$c100a8c0@robm> <20060621222826.ff080422.akpm@osdl.org> <1151333338.2673.4.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:47:47 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="big5"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.2663 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.2663 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jun 2006 09:41:21.0000 (UTC) FILETIME=[D8B93680:01C699CD] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear Robert Mueller, Does arcmsr still has more than one value per file issue on it? Maybe I am miss-understand the means of one value per file. Please tell me the issue, thanks. About the BE platform, Areca's user on linux sparc platform had ran this driver successfuly. But I attempt to install linux system on ppc platform and run this driver for more long time testing this day. I will patch PAE issue on pci_map_single again and handle SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE for your request. Best Regards Erich Chen ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Bottomley" To: "Andrew Morton" Cc: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; "Robert Mueller" Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:48 PM Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:23 +1000 >> "Robert Mueller" 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=114556263632510 > > 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. > > At least the sysfs files have to be fixed before it goes in ... unless > you want to be lynched by Greg? > > What I could do is set up a holding tree for all the fixed ... but -mm > is doing a good job of that at the moment. > > James > >