Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:31:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:31:23 -0500 Received: from 209-76-113-226.ded.pacbell.net ([209.76.113.226]:18996 "EHLO siamese.engr.3ware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:31:22 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Radford To: "'Dave Jones'" , Nathan Neulinger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uetrecht@umr.edu Subject: RE: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 seri es cards Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:41:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1846 Lines: 49 Who from 3ware told you it isn't compatible? That's totally bogus. It's completely compatible. 3ware supports 6, 7, and 8000 series cards with a single driver in 2.2, 2.4, and 2.5 trees. If it isn't working for you, let me know. -Adam -----Original Message----- From: Dave Jones [mailto:davej@codemonkey.org.uk] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:26 AM To: Nathan Neulinger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; uetrecht@umr.edu Subject: Re: 3ware driver in 2.4.x and 2.5.x not compatible with 6x00 series cards On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:10:54PM -0600, Nathan Neulinger wrote: > According to 3Ware, the driver in the 2.4.x and (I assume) 2.5.x is no > longer compatible with the 6xxx series cards. > I don't know what we'll do with this situation when we move to 2.6, cause > right now, it looks like we are completely screwed. The old driver > obviously will not compile on 2.6 since the API's have changed. Any idea at which point the 2.5 driver stopped working ? It may not be that much work to bring that version up to date as a 3ware-old.c driver in a worse-case scenario. This would be huge code duplication however, and would be much better fixed by having the driver detect which card its running on, and 'do the right thing' wrt which firmware it needs. Dave -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/