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From: "Tomita, Haruo" <haruo.tomita@toshiba.co.jp>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: atulm@lsil.com, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>,
	linux-megaraid-devel@dell.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	"Tomita, Haruo" <htomita@pcs.pc.ome.toshiba.co.jp>
Subject: RE: I have modified the megaraid driver v2.00.5 from kernel 2.6 t o 2 .4.22-prex-ac1
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:39:39 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307250440.NAA25924@toshiba.co.jp> (raw)

Hi Matthew,

Haruo> Please explain in detail to a slight degree.
Haruo> Although it corresponds to PCI2001 by 2.6, 
Haruo> is it having stopped corresponding with my patch?

Matthew> No, not at all.  I'm criticising the original code here, not 
Matthew> your patch.In my opinion, we should simply delete these lines:

OK, I will leave an original code. 

Haruo> I think it priority to make it operate by 2.4.
Matthew> Is the driver in 2.4 not functional for you?
 
No, I should also operate the driver of v2.00.x by the kernel 2.4.

Matthew> In 2.5, it is finally possible to write a scsi driver that can cope
with
Matthew> the pci card being hotplugged.  The changes are actually not too
hard, but
Matthew> they do have some consequences we have to accept.
Matthew> For example, converting the sym8xx driver to this means the
controllers will
Matthew> be detected in a different order.  This is going to suck for some
people,
Matthew> but it's really unavoidable.  It doesn't look like megaraid would
have
Matthew> the same problem, though this comment scared me:
Matthew> but there's no code associated with it, so it doesn't matter.

Thank you for intelligible description. I understood in general.

Thanks!!
Haruo

             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-25  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-25  4:39 Tomita, Haruo [this message]
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2003-07-24  5:05 I have modified the megaraid driver v2.00.5 from kernel 2.6 t o 2 .4.22-prex-ac1 Tomita, Haruo
2003-07-24 11:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-24 13:09   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-24 13:47     ` Matthew Wilcox

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