any chance for areca raid driver patch in FC4?

Tim Taranov ttaranov at gmail.com
Mon May 23 15:55:15 UTC 2005


created a bug #158562 about this.

On 5/23/05, James C. Bevier <jim at jbsys.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- 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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