About ARECA RAID driver for Linux i386/x86-64

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I have contact with Andrew Morton about ARECA RAID Linux scsi driver

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issue.
I hope this package is as look like a Linux driver.

No, it doesn't look anything like a Linux driver :(

I fed the patch through scripts/Lindent. There's a copy at

I'll include it -mm kernels.

From a very quick look, I'd say that the driver needs quite a bit of work:

- Remove Documentation/scsi/arcmsr.txt - none of it is relevant

- Use named structure initialisers:

struct foo bar = {
.name1 = value1,
.name2 = value2,
};

- Remove all the LINUX_VERSION_CODE tests

- The kernel thread stopping/starting stuff is old fashioned. Use the kthread API.

- I suspect it is using old-fashioned SCSI APIs too.

Thanks for your doing.
ARECA Linux RAID driver need to support old linux kerenel version. There are a lot of NAS RAID STORAGE SYSTEM development worker still use it at old linux kernel.

Well that's a decision which the scsi maintainers will need to make. Lots of current drivers use LINUX_VERSION_CODE, even though we'd prefer they not do so. I don't know what the scsi policy is for new submissions.

Hi,Andrew Morton

Thanks for your doing.
ARECA Linux RAID driver need to support old linux kerenel version. There are a lot of NAS RAID STORAGE SYSTEM development worker still use it at old linux kernel.
Maybe I need to released one package that as cleanly as look like a Linux driver :) modern times :( .