From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754033AbWKGFim (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:38:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754034AbWKGFim (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:38:42 -0500 Received: from washoe.rutgers.edu ([165.230.95.67]:32735 "EHLO washoe.rutgers.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754033AbWKGFil (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:38:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 00:38:40 -0500 From: Yaroslav Halchenko To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: arcmsr destiny Message-ID: <20061107053840.GA26920@washoe.onerussian.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux kernel mailing list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-URL: http://www.onerussian.com X-Image-Url: http://www.onerussian.com/img/yoh.png X-PGP-Key: http://www.onerussian.com/gpg-yoh.asc X-fingerprint: 3BB6 E124 0643 A615 6F00 6854 8D11 4563 75C0 24C8 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Debian) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear Kernel People, I've spent some time trying to figure out what has happened with an attempt to adapt arcmsr driver. Its timeline within -mm branch seems to stop at removal of areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch within 2.6.18-rc3-mm1, but announcement.txt doesn't have any description why that happened and if there is intent of future development. As I understood from the correspondence included in the patchfile, the driver as it was provided by the manufacture is not very nice or at least has some issues. Thus I would be really thrilled to see it adopted in the mainstream of kernel development. For now I am running arcmsr as it is shipped by the manufacture on 2.6.18.2 kernel. Thank you for any output regarding my question -- Yaroslav Halchenko Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik