Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration

["Robert Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm>]

> > > 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 <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
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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.
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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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