Re: Areca driver recap + status

["erich" <erich@areca.com.tw>]

From: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>

 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 <erich@areca.com.tw>

Areca had tested its arcmsr linux raid driver on ppc machines G5 and it 
worked fine.

Best Regards
Erich Chen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: <rdunlap@xenotime.net>; <hch@infradead.org>; <erich@areca.com.tw>; 
<brong@fastmail.fm>; <dax@gurulabs.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; 
<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>; <robm@fastmail.fm>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: Areca driver recap + status


> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:48:58 -0500
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:23 +1000
> > > "Robert Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The driver went into 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 here:
> > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110754432622498&w=2
> > >
> > > One and a half years.
> > >
> > > Would the world end if we just merged the dang thing?
> >
> > Not the world perhaps, but I'm unwilling to concede that if a driver
> > author is given a list of major issues and does nothing, then the driver
> > should go in after everyone gets impatient.
> >
> > The rules for inclusion are elastic and include broad leeway for good
> > behaviour, but this would stretch the elasticity way beyond breaking
> > point.
> >
> > The list of issues is here:
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114556263632510
>
> I'm under the impression that Erich is under the impression that they've 
> all
> been addressed.
>
> > Most of the serious stuff is fixed with the exception of:
> >
> > - sysfs has more than one value per file
> > - BE platform support
> > - 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.
>
> So this is progress.
>
> Erich, can you please fix these things up and then re-review the issues
> list which I'm maintaining in
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch,
> make sure that everything has been addressed?
>
> If there are some things in those lists which you cannot/will not address
> then please identify them and give us the reasoning behind your decision.

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