Subject: Re: ETA for Areca RAID driver (arcmsr) in mainline?
From: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:24:16 -0700
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On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 02:04 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 23:26 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 00:34 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 22:20 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > > I just got a shiny new (for me at least, the card has been out for
> > > > months) Areca RAID card.
> > > > 
> > > > The driver (arcmsr) is in the -mm kernel, but hasn't yet made it to the
> > > > mainline kernel. I'm curious what remains to be done before this can
> > > > happen?
> > > 
> > > Well, often all that's needed are some user reports that the driver
> > > works for them.
> > > 
> > > Does it?
> > 
> > According to google searches, yes.
> > 
> > At one time there was an issue raised about stack consumption, but that
> > appears fixed??
> 
> I meant, does it work for *you*?

Like I said, I just barely got the card. I'm working on getting a custom
installer built so I get find out the answer. If it was already in
mainline I'd already have a system installed. :)

Dax Kelson

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