qla1280 driver update

Hi

For those of you who wants to play with the updated qla1280 driver with the latest kernels, an updated patch relative to David's 2.5.5 release can be found at:

http://www.wildopensource.com/~jes/linux/qla-3.23.11.diff.gz

I haven't done extensive testing of this under 2.5.5, it's basically just a port to 2.5.5 from the old 2.4.17 based (ie. spin lock changes to match the better locking in 2.5.x).

Cheers,
Jes

You wouldn't happen to know where I could find a patch like this for qlogicfc.c, would you? It doesn't look like it works in 2.5.5 either...

Thanks,
Jesse

Jesse> You wouldn't happen to know where I could find a patch like this Jesse> for qlogicfc.c, would you? It doesn't look like it works in Jesse> 2.5.5 either...

Not for qlogicfc.c, I think that driver is pretty much considered obsolete. However I know Arjan is working on something for the qla2x00 driver written by QLogic which is just as messy as the 1280 used to be. I think you can find Arjan's patches in the Red Hat RawHide SRPMS.

Cheers,
Jes

Excellent, thanks for the pointer. I'll give the updated qla2x00 driver a try.

Thanks,
Jesse

Jesse> Excellent, thanks for the pointer. I'll give the updated Jesse> qla2x00 driver a try.

If this works for you, would you mind to send me a patch relative to 2.5? Given that qlogic seems to have abandoned the drivers, we might just as well get them into a better shape; I'd do it myself except I'm running short of time as I'll be on vacation next week.

Thanks,

	--david

Jesse> Excellent, thanks for the pointer. I'll give the updated qla2x00 Jesse> driver a try.

David> If this works for you, would you mind to send me a patch relative David> to 2.5? Given that qlogic seems to have abandoned the drivers, David> we might just as well get them into a better shape; I'd do it David> myself except I'm running short of time as I'll be on vacation David> next week.

Hmmm, it's my impression that Arjan wants to wait a bit until he's a bit more pleased with the code.

Arjan?

Jes