From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965254AbVHPOto (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:49:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965255AbVHPOto (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:49:44 -0400 Received: from vanessarodrigues.com ([192.139.46.150]:14269 "EHLO jaguar.mkp.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965254AbVHPOtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:49:43 -0400 To: Rolf Eike Beer Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Bolke de Bruin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] remove dead reset function from cpqfcTS driver From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: mkp.net References: <200508051202.07091@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> <200508161111.08070@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> <20050816091758.GA21378@infradead.org> <200508161137.37749@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:49:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200508161137.37749@bilbo.math.uni-mannheim.de> (Rolf Eike Beer's message of "Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:37:30 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Rolf" == Rolf Eike Beer writes: Hey Rolf! Rolf> There was a request on lkml last week for a working version of Rolf> this driver. For the moment I try to clean this up a bit before Rolf> doing some real work. I found 4 major things that should be Rolf> done, for half of them I have patches in a proof-of-concept Rolf> state. As Christoph said I'm working on a driver for the TachLite TL/TS/XL2 chips. Initially I just wanted to add support for the integrated PHY on XL2 so we could support those cards on PA-RISC. But when I started looking at the driver I came to the conclusion that it was just too ugly to live. Architecturally, the overall design of cpqfc just doesn't fit in well with Linux. So I'm rewriting it from scratch - but that obviously takes a while. I think it's cool that you want to hack on cpqfcTS. But be aware that it's not just a matter of running lindent and making it compile in 2.6.late. And without hardware it's going to be hard. Fibre channel is very finicky. If you manage to get your hands on hardware (cards - avoid Tachyon 5000 series. TachLite 5100, 5166 or 5200 is what you want, disk array, hub/switch, GBICs, etc.) I wouldn't mind some help... -- Martin K. Petersen http://mkp.net/