Re: 2.6.6-mm5

From: R. J. Wysocki
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 06:45:17 EST


On Saturday 22 of May 2004 11:09, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > - Added a new SATA RAID driver from 3ware. From a quick peek it seem to
> > need a little work yet.
>
> It's not too bad... but it looks more like a 2.2 driver forward ported
> to 2.4, than a 2.6.x driver. Needs some luvin' from the 2.6 scsi api crew.
>
> Overall, it appears to be a message-based firmware engine like
> drivers/block/carmel.c, that hides the SATA details in the firmware.

BTW, which 3ware driver would you suggest to use with the 2.6.x now? I'm
going to install such a controller in my box ...

RJW

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