Status of aic79xx driver in the linux kernel

Christopher Brown snecklifter at gmail.com
Sat May 2 11:42:44 UTC 2009


2009/5/2 Howard Wilkinson <howard at cohtech.com>:
> I have been having some problems with an Adaptec 39320A-R card and have been
> poking around and found that the driver in the kernel claims to be derived
> from an Adaptec version 2.0.15 which was release in October 2005! There is a
> later version on the Adaptec site from April 2007 - 2.0.26.
>
> I was wondering if anybody knows the actual status of the driver in the
> kernel i.e. has it diverged so far that the Adaptec updates are moot; have
> they already been incorporated into the kernel but the docs not updated to
> reflect this, or ...
>
> I ask because I am trying to decide whether to invest the time to look at
> integrating the latest Adaptec drop to see if my problems go away.

You should ping fedora-kernel on this Howard. The list is open so does
not require subscription.

Cheers


-- 
Christopher Brown




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