From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274953AbTHAU3r (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:29:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274957AbTHAU3r (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:29:47 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:32072 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274953AbTHAU3q (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:29:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 20:27:02 +0000 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Thomas Horsten Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel-org, arjanv@redhat.com, andre@linux-ide.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.4.2x) Driver for Medley software RAID (Silicon Image 3112 SATARaid, CMD680, etc?) for testing Message-ID: <20030801202702.P6505@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from thomas@horsten.com on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:24:13PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:24:13PM +0200, Thomas Horsten wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a driver for Medley software RAID as used by Silicon Image > 3112 SATA IDE controller, and also other IDE RAID controllers like CMD680 > based ones (and possibly others). Currently it's only for 2.4.2X. > > This driver uses the ATA RAID driver framework and is based on code from > Arjan van de Ven's silraid.c and hptraid.c (it replaces the invalid > silraid.c driver). I'm curious. What makes you thnk silraid.c is invalid? And wouldn't it have been easier to just fix whatever you were missing in silraid ?? Greetings, Arjan van de Ven