From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271080AbTGWCYI (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:24:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271089AbTGWCYI (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:24:08 -0400 Received: from CPE-65-29-18-15.mn.rr.com ([65.29.18.15]:63660 "EHLO www.enodev.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271080AbTGWCYD (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:24:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd From: Shawn To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Erik Andersen , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1058927928.8504.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 22 Jul 2003 21:38:48 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Holy piss Andre, you've got to be one of the funnier kernel guys... On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:59, Andre Hedrick wrote: > It is a HUGE POS! > > The obfustication (sp) level is so high you wonder why. > It may be GPL, but only goes to prove a few points that everyone lost on > me in the past. > > OEM drivers in ATA suck! Their CAM blows goat. > > Look at the crap in the stack when Marcelo was suckered into taking a > "Promise Patch". > > I have already cut all ties with Promise so here is the deal. > I no longer have to count the number of fingers on my hand between hand > shakes. IE no extras and not shortages. > > I wish you well in your adventures in pain. > > > Andre Hedrick > LAD Storage Consulting Group > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Erik Andersen wrote: > > > Some folk I've done some consulting work for bought a zillion > > Promise SATA cards. They were able to convince Promise to > > release their SATA driver, which was formerly available only as > > a binary only kernel module, under the terms of the GPL. > > > > So here it is: the Promise SATA driver for > > the PDC20318, PDC20375, PDC20378, and PDC20618. This driver is > > released as-is. It is useful for the > > > > Promise SATA150 TX4 > > Promise SATA150 TX2plus > > Promise SATA 378 > > Promise Ultra 618 > > > > cards. As a temporary download location, the GPL'd driver can be > > obtained from http://www.busybox.net/pdc-ultra-1.00.0.10.tgz > > > > Have fun! And many thanks to Promise for contributing the driver > > for their cards! > > > > -Erik > > > > -- > > Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ > > --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- > > - > > 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/