Re: [PATCH] second attempt at DDF1 support for dmraid

Darrick,

thanks for your work!

I'm likely top catch up with you next week (funeral of my father last week
and LinuxTag this week).

Regards,
Heinz

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:05:12PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here's a second run of the DDF1 patch:
> http://sweaglesw.net/~djwong/docs/ddf5.patch
> 
> This patch applies against dmraid 1.0.0rc11-pre1 and includes the fixes
> described below.  Note that this patch supersedes last week's.
> 
> - The adapter data table offset should be multiplied by the block
>   size, else we get zero (or garbage) and we certainly don't get
>   what we want.
> - A new flag, adaptec_mode, to identify when we should be looking
>   out for Adaptec controller quirks.
> - (Sketchy) workarounds for strange quirks in Adaptec controllers.
> - Working RAID5 support because dmraid 1.0.0rc11-pre1 lets us specify
>   the parity algorithm and loads the correct RAID5 device size in
>   the dm table.
> - Linear concatenation arrays also work.
> - #if 0 code removal.
> 
> Let me know what you think.  Heinz, are you out there?
> 
> --D
> 



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