From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932220AbVHKPwB (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:52:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932231AbVHKPwB (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:52:01 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:39563 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932220AbVHKPv7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:51:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.5 - Compaq Fibre Channel 64-bit/66Mhz HBA From: Arjan van de Ven To: Bolke de Bruin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <42FB72DE.8000703@aub.nl> References: <42FB72DE.8000703@aub.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:51:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1123775510.3201.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 (++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:46 +0200, Bolke de Bruin wrote: > Hello, > > The company I work for is investigating a switch from Windows 2000 to a > Linux based setup for its databases. Because of a dependancy on a third > party we need to settle on kernel 2.6.5. kernel.org 2.6.5 or some vendor 2.6.5? If the later.. you should ask the vendor as well > So the basic question is. Does this controller work on kernel 2.6.5? > in kernel.org 2.6.5 the answer is no; it hasn't been adjusted to the 2.6 kernel really (heck hardly to the 2.4 kernel) so isn't reliable at all for business use (or in fact any use). Think "no error handling" and things like that.