Re: aacraid 2.4.0 kernel

[Byron Stanoszek]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jason Ford wrote:

> I see in the archives of this mailing list that someone was working on the
> aacraid driver for the 2.4 kernel however that post was almost 2 months old.
> I know Alan Cox denied inclusion of the driver due to the poor nature it was
> written for the 2.2 tree. Every post that I have seen so far has just said
> that Adaptec is working on it. However, I am sure there are many people out
> there like myself that have to support this card in enviroments that would
> be benifical to upgrade to 2.4 kernel. I am not a part of this list however
> have been scouring through geocrawler.com archives of this list everyday for
> the last month hoping and waiting.

While it's totally unofficial, I have a patch for aacraid 1.0.6 for 2.4.1-ac5.
I have not tested it yet, but it compiles cleanly. I'd like to hear any results
(good or bad) you have on it.

You can find it at:

  ftp://ftp.winds.org/linux/patches/2.4.1/aacraid-2.4.1-1.0.6.patch

Regards,
 Byron

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