From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265955AbTGWKXF (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:23:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266054AbTGWKXF (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:23:05 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:15606 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265955AbTGWKXA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 06:23:00 -0400 Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd From: Alan Cox To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Erik Andersen , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1058956331.5520.13.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 23 Jul 2003 11:32:11 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 02:59, Andre Hedrick wrote: > 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. Thats ok - now they are doing GPL drivers themselves they don't need you any more. Promise did a SCSI CAM driver because their hardware can queue commands without TCQ - which drivers/ide can't cope with. Otherwise I'd just have used the same type of changes the FreeBSD people did for 2037x. Its also interesting because it has a hardware XOR engine.