From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265215AbUEVJ3x (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 05:29:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265200AbUEVJ3x (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 05:29:53 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:44193 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265152AbUEVJ3s (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 May 2004 05:29:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 02:26:39 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: hch@infradead.org Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm5 Message-Id: <20040522022639.4a8e1f0e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040522092237.GA3417@infradead.org> References: <20040522013636.61efef73.akpm@osdl.org> <40AF18E7.4040509@pobox.com> <20040522092237.GA3417@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hch@infradead.org wrote: > > On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:09:59AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > >- Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware. From a quick peek it seem to > > > need a little work yet. > > > > > > It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported > > to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver. Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew. > > > > Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like > > drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware. > > In addition driver submission should always go through linux-scsi. Please > tell them to submit it to linux-scsi so we can have a public review process > there. Adam did attempt to cc linux-scsi but at 140kbytes the email probably got spat out.