Re: Some sata_mv error messages

[Jeff Garzik]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> This is great news. Is there any relationship between the development of
> this driver and the one maintained by Marvell that's available from
> their web site ? Their latest version (3.6.1) is released under the GPL,
> and is a very solid driver based our experience with it over the past
> few years, though it's targeted at older versions of the linux kernel
> and needs some porting to 2.6.16 (and contains redundant stuff like its
> own scsi-ata layer).

There is a we-use-that-driver-as-documentation-sometimes relationship.

It's quite un-Linux for a Linux driver, and others have reported that 
sata_mv in its current state is more stable for them than the Marvell 
behemoth GPL driver.

	Jeff


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