Re: SCSI Initio 9100UW (INIC-950p chipset) support nunder kernel2.6.x

[Rodrigo Severo]

Pozsar Balazs wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:06:51PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  
>
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:03:00PM -0300, Rodrigo Severo wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > with kernel 2.4.24 (yes, I know it's old).
> > >
> > > I want to update my kernel do 2.6.8. The question: is there support for 
> > > this board/chipset under kernel 2.6.x?
> > >
> > > I looked around a lot and couldn't find much. www.initio.com says their 
> > > code is in the kernel since 2.0.32. Has it been left out for 2.6.x?
> > >
> > > Is anyone working on this port? Anyone intending to work on it?
> > >      
> > The driver still exists and actually compiles.  It's marked BROKEN, although
> > I don't know why.  If you want to help testing we can update it to current
> > standards.
> >    
>
> It works perfectly for me. (I have 1 disk and 1 cdrom.)
>
> Also note that mandrake ships a kernel with the BROKEN flag patched off.
>
> I do not know why was it marked as such.
In fact it works just fine for me too. As Christoph Hellwig latest 
message suggested I was suffering lack-of-st-driver sickness *:">

As far as I can tell the driver is really fine. Maybe it's time to 
remove the BROKEN flag from it? I am not sure who is responsible for 
this but here is my Works For Me vote.


Thanks you all for your help,

Rodrigo Severo

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