[RFC: 2.6.16 patch] add the areca driver

[RFC: 2.6.16 patch] add the areca driver

[Adrian Bunk]

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I'd like to add the areca driver to 2.6.16 - it seems straightforward 
and doesn't touch other code.

Below are the commits I picked from Linus' tree, and the complete patch 
is attachd.

Is there any reason I miss why this driver might not work in 2.6.16?

TIA
Adrian


Commit: f6013cc7f40d9b191a6b879a1941871b54552a81 
Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:54:39 +0100 

    [SCSI] arcmsr: fix up sysfs values
    
    The sysfs files in arcmsr are non-standard in that they aren't simple
    filename value pairs, the values actually contain preceeding text which
    would have to be parsed.  The idea of sysfs files is that the file name
    is the description and the contents is a simple value.
    
    Fix up arcmsr to conform to this standard.
    
    Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Commit: e43c51964140ae3b11b320fae451f47ecb7763d4 
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:53:31 +0100 

    [SCSI] areca sysfs fix
    
    Remove sysfs_remove_bin_file() return-value checking from the areca driver.
    
    There's nothing a driver can do if sysfs file removal fails, so we'll soon be
    changing sysfs_remove_bin_file() to internally print a diagnostic and to
    return void.
    
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Commit: 144d09c6b0f3638ba03f9994a01aa0136b86918c 
Author: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:52:30 +0100 

    [SCSI] arcmsr: initial driver, version 1.20.00.13
    
    arcmsr is a driver for the Areca Raid controller, a host based RAID
    subsystem that speaks SCSI at the firmware level.
    
    This patch is quite a clean up over the initial submission with
    contributions from:
    
    Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
    Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
    Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
    
    Signed-off-by: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>



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