aix79xx driver status
Quoted 10 lines · Age Strand
As far as I understand you the aic7Yxx kernel driver tree is very much alive and kicking.
So what's the deal with the version numbers on the aic79xx driver? It has stayed put on 1.1.13 since 2003. Does that mean that there hasn't been any new releases of this driver since then?
I seem to recall seeing submitted patches to aic79xx on the list as late as 2004. What's become of those? Is this just a case of patches going in but version numbering not being updated?
aic7Yxx drivers have been maintained very badly in the _kernel_ . Outside, Adaptec people has their own tree.
You can get the latest ADAPTEC patches from:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?a=108731197000012&r=5&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?a=108731197000012&r=4&w=2
under the subject "patch XX/28] Sync up drivers/scsi/aic7xxx".
never applied because :http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=109637681104990&w=2
But maybe, there are newer patches inside Adaptec, ask it to Luben Tuikov <[email protected]>
This is a _very critical_ driver and I hope someone take it back to life again.
Quoted 2 lines · Xose Vazquez Perez
This is a
_verycritical_driver and I hope someone take it back to life again.
True. These cards are getting more and more mainstream so it would make sense to bring it up to date, i.e. merge back patches from vendor, etc.
According to Luben Tuikov the maintainers of the kernel driver at the moment are James Bottomley and Christoph Hellwig.
Christoph has already answered some of my questions about the driver.
aage