Re: Linux 2.1.131ac13 released

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:04:10 +0000 (GMT)


> I have a DPT 2044UW PCI SCSI card which uses this driver. I'm curious
> what's wrong with this driver. It seems to work just fine in kernel

eata_queue is totally broken in low memory situations for one

> 2.1.129. Was something done to break it, or was it maked obsolete because
> it hasn't been maintained?

Its always been broken

> Is there a replacement for this driver if EATA-DMA is obsolete?

eata

> There are other (older) EATA drivers in the kernel. Did you mean to mark
> one of the others obsolete, but did this one by mistake?

No. eata is the most recent and maintained one (eata-dma/eata-pio) the old ones

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