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add the areca driver

RFC PATCH New Adrian Bunk 1 participant 1 message Jan 30, 2007 SCSI

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RFC PATCH 1/1 add the areca driver

I'd like to add the areca driver to 2.6.16 - it seems straightforward and doesn't touch other code.

Below are the commits I picked from Linus' tree, and the complete patch is attachd.

Is there any reason I miss why this driver might not work in 2.6.16?

TIA
Adrian

Commit: f6013cc7f40d9b191a6b879a1941871b54552a81
Author: James Bottomley <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:54:39 +0100

[SCSI] arcmsr: fix up sysfs values

The sysfs files in arcmsr are non-standard in that they aren't simple filename value pairs, the values actually contain preceeding text which would have to be parsed. The idea of sysfs files is that the file name is the description and the contents is a simple value.

Fix up arcmsr to conform to this standard.

Commit: e43c51964140ae3b11b320fae451f47ecb7763d4
Author: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:53:31 +0100

[SCSI] areca sysfs fix

Remove sysfs_remove_bin_file() return-value checking from the areca driver.

There's nothing a driver can do if sysfs file removal fails, so we'll soon be changing sysfs_remove_bin_file() to internally print a diagnostic and to return void.

Commit: 144d09c6b0f3638ba03f9994a01aa0136b86918c
Author: Erich Chen <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:52:30 +0100

[SCSI] arcmsr: initial driver, version 1.20.00.13

arcmsr is a driver for the Areca Raid controller, a host based RAID subsystem that speaks SCSI at the firmware level.

This patch is quite a clean up over the initial submission with contributions from:

Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>