Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268447AbUJJTV7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:21:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268452AbUJJTV7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:21:59 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:19135 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268447AbUJJTV6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:21:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.28-pre3 From: Alan Cox To: Martins Krikis Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com In-Reply-To: <20041009204425.49483.qmail@web13725.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041009204425.49483.qmail@web13725.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1097432347.29422.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:19:19 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 745 Lines: 16 On Sad, 2004-10-09 at 21:44, Martins Krikis wrote: > It is an ataraid "subdriver" but uses the SCSI subsystem to find the > RAID member disks. It depends on the libata library, particularly the > ata_piix driver that enables the Serial ATA capabilities in ICH5/ICH6 > chipsets. Hence, for kernels older than 2.4.28, the libata patch by > Jeff Garzik should be applied before applying this patch. This seems to make sense to me - for 2.6 we have the DM layer, for 2.4 we've used the ataraid stuff. - 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/