Re: cciss driver

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:42:15 +0100


On Thu, Jan 02 2003, Byron Albert wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have noticed that there have been alot of changes to the cciss
> driver in the last few revs of the 2.4 kernel a diff of 2.4.18 and
> 2.4.20 show this (2500 lines in a patch). But the driver version has
> not changed. I am trying to figure out how the version in the kernel
> relates to the version on hp's web site. On there website they have a
> 2.4.34 version that has patches witch will patch the kernel that comes
> with redhat 8.0 witch doesn't help me much because that kernel is an rc
> kernel with about 100 other patches 3 of witch touch this driver.
>
> Can any one be of some help. I am going to be deploying alot of
> machines with this card in the next few months and would like some of
> the fetures the newer driver gets me.

You probably just want to grab either 2.4.21-pre2 or extract the cciss
changes from that patch - that'll bring the driver up to 2.4.42, which,
as far as I'm told, is the latest and (hopefully) greatest.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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