On Tue, Jan 31 2006, Joshua Kugler wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:38, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 31 2006, Sander wrote:
> > > > I got the drivers here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.keffective.com/mvsata/FC3/
> > > >
> > > > The latest was mvSata_Linux_3.6.1.tgz as of 2005-10-13.
> > >
> > > I very, very much prefer in-tree drivers :-)
> >
> > Actually there is a sata_mv driver in the kernel, however it's pretty
> > experimental right now. I'm sure it could use testers :-)
>
> Interesting. I understand it going through testing, but why didn't
> they pull in the mvSata driver referenced above? It was already GPL.
> Or did they pull in that driver and just want testing?
Did you look at the driver? I'm guessing no :-)
Additionally, it didn't interface with libata at all. A native libata
driver is greatly preferred.
--
Jens Axboe
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