Re: Getting A Patch Into The Kernel

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Hi, this is the correct forum. You can submit the patch here. Merely
paste the patch output inline into your email, and make your subject
"[PATCH] 2.4.5 FastTrak RAID Whatever Fix" and explain in the email.

Note your code must become GPL licensed.

I would suggest making the patch against the latest kernel, 2.4.5 -- or
even better, 2.4.5-ac13 or 2.4.6-pre2.

I suggest reading linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches for coding
standards, etc.

It is good to see manufactures supporting their products in Linux, thank
you!

-- 
Robert M. Love
rml@ufl.edu
rml@tech9.net
On 12 Jun 2001 15:34:43 -0700, Craig Lyons wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is Craig Lyons and I am the marketing manager at Promise Technology.
> We have a question and are hoping you can point us in the right direction.
> In the 2.4 kernel there is support for some of our products (Ultra 66, Ultra
> 100, etc.). As you may or may not know, our Ultra family of controllers
> (which are just standard IDE controllers and do not have RAID) use the same
> ASIC on them as our FastTrak RAID controllers do. The 2.4 kernel will
> recognize our Ultra family of controllers, but there is a problem in that a
> FastTrak will not be recognized as a FastTrak, but as an Ultra.
> Consequently, the array on the FastTrak is not recognized as an array, but
> instead each disk is seen individually, and the users data cannot be
> properly accessed. We have a patch that fixes this and are wondering if it
> is possible to get this patch into the kernel, and if so, how this would be
> done?
> 
> I apologize if this is the incorrect e-mail to be making this request to. If
> this is not the correct address to be posting this message, any assistance
> as to where it should be directed would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Craig
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