Bug 14961

Summary:	Very old and buggy ARCMSR drivers are included
Product:	SCSI Drivers	Reporter:	mikki
Component:	Other	Assignee:	scsi_drivers-other
Status:	CLOSED OBSOLETE
Severity:	high	CC:	alan, bugzilla.kernel.org, nick.cheng, nik
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.18 etc	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	Latest arcmsr

Description mikki 2009-12-30 12:38:04 UTC

Created attachment 24377 [details]
Latest arcmsr

Hello,

Some very buggy ARCMSR drivers are included in the kernels dating from early 2008.

The new drivers with the same version number, but a later date exists and should be included instead.

This is the latest ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/SourceCode/arcmsr.1.20.0X.15-90605.zip

With the older .15 driver i had several system lockups under heavy load.

Comment 1 Andrew Morton 2010-01-06 23:21:38 UTC

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:38:06 GMT
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14961
> 
>            Summary: Very old and buggy ARCMSR drivers are included
>            Product: SCSI Drivers
>            Version: 2.5
>     Kernel Version: 2.6.18 etc
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Other
>         AssignedTo: scsi_drivers-other@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
>         ReportedBy: mikki@hugo.dk
>         Regression: No
> 
> 
> Created an attachment (id=24377)
>  --> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=24377)
> Latest arcmsr
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Some very buggy ARCMSR drivers are included in the kernels dating from early
> 2008.
> 
> The new drivers with the same version number, but a later date exists and
> should be included instead.
> 
> This is the latest
>
> ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/SourceCode/arcmsr.1.20.0X.15-90605.zip
> 
> With the older .15 driver i had several system lockups under heavy load.
> 

Well that's bad.  I'm not seeing any commits against that driver from
Areca staff since February 2008.

So it may be that the manufacturer has abandoned this driver.  If so,
then it would be useful if someone who has the hardware could pick
apart the differences between the above driver and the in-kernel
version, and send the updates into the mainline kernel.

Comment 2 nick cheng 2010-01-07 01:50:06 UTC

Hi Andrew,
Areca does not abandon this driver.
We will still keep maintaining it.
Originally I plan to update the driver in the middle of last year.
But there is a lot of emergency to postpone the plan again and again.
I will make time to do it ASAP.
Sorry for you inconvenience.

Comment 3 mikki 2010-09-04 03:38:16 UTC

This has still not been done from what I can see.

Continuing to let a _very_ buggy driver stay in the dist when you know it causes trouble and not keeping promises is something I dont expect for someone providing missioncritical equipment.

Comment 4 Marc Bejarano 2011-04-19 10:56:41 UTC

nick: any ETA on your update?

Comment 5 nick cheng 2011-04-20 02:26:41 UTC

Marc,
I have updated driver to bugzilla several times.
I have no idea why you still ask this.
Do you lost something?

Comment 6 mikki 2011-04-20 18:58:13 UTC

If you have updated the driver please close the ticket Nick.

Comment 7 nick cheng 2011-04-21 01:50:34 UTC

This bug is not opened by me.

Comment 8 mikki 2011-04-21 05:28:39 UTC

No but if you resolved it mark it as resolved. Its hard for me to know if you as a vendor solved the issue.