Re: Megaraid does not work with 2.4.22

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 11:36:39 EST




On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > Having two drivers for the same controller is not a good thing from a user
>
> this doesn't is first time:
> e100/eepro100 aic7xxx/aic7xxx_old sym53c8xx_2/sym53c8xx+ncr53c8xx ...

Yes its not but still, it sucks.

> > point of view. I just asked Atul privately but will do so again here: Why
> > do we need "megaraid2" ?
>
> megaraid 1.xx gets *very bad* performance. But like 2.4 is stable serie, it
> shouldn't be deleted.
>
> megaraid 2.xx gets correct performance, it's stable and it adds support
> for _present_ hardware, MegaRAID Ultra320 RAID boards(518, 520, 531, 532).

Fine. I agree on adding in to mainline 2.4.x.


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