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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Miod Vallat wrote:

>> I'd rather have Adaptec provide a source code driver for their cards
>> directly, then have Scott Long have to fight with unavailability of
>> documentation itself ... if the driver works, what do we need
>> documentation for?
>
> To fix the driver.

If the vendor is supporting the driver, and working with the community, 
then one would hope that they would also fix the driver as bug reports 
come in about it ...