Why I think FC3 sucks!

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:18:39AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:

 > How about the advansys driver? A number of people have asked about this
 > at various times:
 > 
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111232
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112795
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120446
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124018

current fedora-testing has it reenabled for x86.

 > I still use one of these cards myself and the driver is still part of
 > the mainline kernel, though not built by default. The driver code is at
 > least partly maintained though, because it changes between releases.

it disappeared in Fedora because someone marked it as BROKEN upstream,
so when we rebased, it disappeared silently. We've got some smarts
in the build system to actually notice things like this disappearing
now, so hopefully we won't see this happening again in future.
(Or at least we'll have a heads-up on it in the worse case).

The BROKEN tag is only relevant on some architectures. As some have
noticed, it builds, and works just fine on x86.

 > It's sufficiently important for me that I maintain a web page showing
 > how to use an Advansys SCSI card in Fedora Core (http://www.city-
 > fan.org/ftp/contrib/drivers/advansys/) and the feedback I get suggests
 > that I'm far from the only one still using them.

Maybe everyone else jumped on the -testing kernel 8-)

		Dave