> Checking the recent posts it seems that there are two outstanding
> issues
>
> > - PAE (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) issues.
> > - SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is ignored. This is wrong. The sync cache in
> > the
>
> > shutdown notifier isn't sufficient.
>
> That said, we have been using an older version of the driver off the
> Areca website for some time now with no major issues (other than kernel
> update problems).
>
> Is it possible to get the driver integrated and fix these problems
> after?
Why not fix them up and submit the corrected driver? If no one wants to
put the effort into fixing these issues now, why would they do the work
later?
I believe these final issues have already been fixed:
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115226175822438&w=2
From: Erich Chen <[email protected]>
1- fix sysfs has more than one value per file
2- PAE issues (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long)
3- unblock SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE
Signed-off-by: Erich Chen [email protected]
---
And another one after that that Andrew brought up:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115259088411283&w=2
I see that all of this was in 2.6.18-rc1-mm2
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http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm2/announce.txt
SCSI fixes.
-drivers-scsi-arcmsr-cleanups.patch
-areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7.patch
-areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update7-fix.patch
Folded into areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
+areca-sysfs-fix.patch
Fix breakage due to sysfs API changes.
---
But I don't see anything in 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 or 2.6.18-rc2
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc2/2.6.18-rc2-mm1/announce.txt
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc2
Rob
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