Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030426AbVJ1WwB (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:52:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030439AbVJ1WwA (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:52:00 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49868 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030422AbVJ1Wv7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:51:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:51:55 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Vasquez Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: HEADS UP for QLA2100 users Message-ID: <20051028225155.GA13958@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Vasquez , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org References: <20051024014838.0dd491bb.akpm@osdl.org> <1130186927.6831.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051024141646.6265c0da.akpm@osdl.org> <20051027152637.GC7889@plap.qlogic.org> <20051027190227.GA16211@infradead.org> <20051027215313.GB7889@plap.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051027215313.GB7889@plap.qlogic.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1382 Lines: 29 On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:53:13PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > After numerous trial and error efforts, we were able to find a > reasonbly stable release with which the customer's configuration could > recover and run (1.17.38 EF, quite old). > > In any case, formally, QLogic has dropped *all* support for ISP2100 > cards, and thus, it's quite difficult to get any type of traction > from the firmware folk to begin to root-cause the failures. Sure. We're all very happy that you invest time to help these users anyway, and will allow us to get rid of one more unmaintained driver. > I'm still in the process of ironing out the .bin distribution details > locally, but perhaps once we migrate to firmware-loading exclusively > via request_firmware(), the (small?) contigent of 2100 could use the > EF variant I referenced above. You know, I'm in favour of getting firmware images in the kernel image, but what's the problem of simply downgrading the 2100 firmware until we get rid of the builtin firmware for all qla2xxx variants? > Could I get another informal count of 2100 users who are still having > problems with qla2xxx? - 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/