The areas I have looked at don't look the same. I was not the author of
either so can not say that perhaps one referenced the other extensively but
from both the operation and reset handling they don't seem very similar.
Eddie
> Isn't the Compaq cpfc driver just a version of the Qlogic FC driver?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:36 PM
> To: Alan Cox
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> Subject: Re: New EH Code
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> The Compaq cpqfc driver (Fibre Channel) uses the new error handler code.
> This
> comes with Red Hat 7.0 and you can get it from the Compaq web site. After a
>
> couple of tweaks it seems to be working quite well. I believe Compaq should
>
> be updating their web site (either already or very soon with these tweaks).
> I
> have done a fair amount of testing on it both from a single system as well
> as
> in a cluster. Note that there were only a couple of tweaks needed related
> to
> the new error handler and those were primarily dealing initialization
> differences between the new and old error handler. All of the changes were
> done to the cpqfc driver with none needed for the new error handler.
>
> The new Adaptec driver (from Justin Gibbs) which is still in "beta" also
> uses
> the new error handler. I have only played with that a small amount but
> seems
> to be doing well so far.
>
> It is true that the number using the new error handler is small but it is
> growing!
>
> Eddie
>
> > > > For 2.4 as their authors adopt them. Adopting the new eh code is a
> good
> > > > idea
> > > [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Most of the prominent SCSI HBA players in
> > > the industry have not used the new eh code!!. So is it stable enough?
> >
> > The symbios driver has, and it now handles things like hot disk removal
> which
> > didnt work before. Gerhard is the obvious man to comment
> >
> > I think personally its that most people haven't updated drivers. In
> paticular
> > a lot of the old drivers have few users/maintainers who care to make them
> > work better
> >
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