any chance for areca raid driver patch in FC4?

James C. Bevier jim at jbsys.com
Mon May 23 15:14:26 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Taranov" <ttaranov at gmail.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
<fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: any chance for areca raid driver patch in FC4?


> the mm patch is broken out into pieces so that it's easier to apply it
> selectively, if need it (and not that the driver is "broken" somehow,
> if that's what you imply - it's the latest vendor certified driver
> that works just fine).
>
> Anyway, I was just checking... I guess I'm then stuck having to
> recompile my kernel anytime I want to patch it. kinda sux.
>
> On 5/23/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 00:22 -0400, Tim Taranov wrote:
>> > I don't really know how the fedora build cycle works but is there any
>> > chance the follwing driver patch could be included into FC4?
>> >
>> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12-rc4/2.6.12-rc4-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
>> >
>> > It's kindof a bugger for me to have to recompile it every time just
>> > because I want it in the OS...
>>
>> It needs to be come part of the main kernel.  Only then will it be
>> included into Fedora proper.  There must be a reason it's been
>> 'broken-out'....
>>

Tim,

Add a bug report to bugzilla and provide the patch as a 'solution'.  This 
makes it easy for the kernel patch to show up in FC4.

Jim 




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