any chance for areca raid driver patch in FC4?

Tim Taranov ttaranov at gmail.com
Mon May 23 18:34:06 UTC 2005


> The question to keep asking is "If its not upstream, there's a reason.
> If that reason is code-quality, why is it good enough for Fedora?"
....
> New code, be it drivers/filesystems whatever has to go upstream,
> or at the least show signs of 'going upstream soon'.
...

Totally agree. In fact, the driver that I started this thread about
satisfies the above - it's pretty much a given that it'll be in one of
the upcoming kernel releases.

On a side note, as completely new to Fedora I was very satisfied with
its driver support - besides raid controller, not a hinch with any of
the drivers for my hardware that came with FC4 out of the box - keep
up the good work!

Thanks,
Tim

On 5/23/05, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:57:38PM -0400, Tim Taranov wrote:
>  > I would have excluded device drivers from this category or goal,
>  > _especially_ if they are shown to work ok under mainline kernel
>  > releases as well as are part of the upcoming/future kernel releases.
> 
> The problem is a lot of drivers that live outside the kernel.org tree
> are _awful_. Its not until they get submitted for inclusion upstream
> that they go through peer-review and get various issues worked out.
> 
> The question to keep asking is "If its not upstream, there's a reason.
> If that reason is code-quality, why is it good enough for Fedora?"
> 
> Another issue is the burden it adds to the distro kernel maintainer
> (ie, me right now).  There are two 'add-on' drivers in the Fedora
> kernel tree right now (ipw2100 and ipw2200), and it's a complete
> pain for me to have to run off and download extra drivers, bend
> them to fit the fedora kernel, fix up any additional problems
> that get reported etc. I really regret my decision of merging them,
> though I know there are countless users of those drivers who are
> glad that I merged them.
> 
> New code, be it drivers/filesystems whatever has to go upstream,
> or at the least show signs of 'going upstream soon'.
> 
>                Dave
> 
>




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