From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Tue Jun 2 03:04:46 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9EB2FF19A for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2020 03:04:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49bcMy07j1z4YxX; Tue, 2 Jun 2020 03:04:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id 05234ipC015173; Mon, 1 Jun 2020 20:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd-rwg@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id 05234hp0015172; Mon, 1 Jun 2020 20:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <202006020304.05234hp0015172@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Is the "ciss" driver unmaintained? (For HP RAID/HBA cards) In-Reply-To: <20200601214832.jpudeti7he6u626j@nerd-thinkpad.local> To: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 20:04:43 -0700 (PDT) CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49bcMy07j1z4YxX X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13868, ipnet:69.59.192.0/19, country:US] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 03:04:46 -0000 > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 11:39:36PM +0200, Peter Eriksson wrote: > >I submitted a couple of bug reports (and patches) for the ?ciss? driver about a month ago but it seems there is no response to it? > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246279 > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246280 > > > >Now I can run a locally built kernel but I prefer to stay away from that if possible so would really like to have it merged into the official release (if possible) in the long run. > > > >Is there some way to find out who (if anyone) is responsible for that part of the kernel? Or should I just assume it?s abandoned and try to submit a fix somewhere else? And if so how? > > > >- Peter > > > > Hi Peter, > > I'm not yet a commiter, so I can't speak on behalf of those that are - but when > working on documentation for man-pages I tend to following procedure: > > To start with the first thing I do is look in src/MAINTAINERS or, failing that, > see who last had a good set of commits going for the chunk of code that's being > touched - and then simply try reaching out to them. > > If you have a patch prepared that applies against the head of the tree, and on > top of that if it's build and runtime tested in production, that at least mean > you've done everything that can be reasonably expected. > > Who knows, you may be in luck that someone who's interested might read hackers@ > too. :) It looks like these bugs have not been triaged by bugmaster@ they are still on the incomping bugs@ mail list. But after a quick read of them I boldly stuck imp@ on them who is probably the person most knowing about the cam layer and large storage arrays. He can slap my hand later... > Yours, > Daniel Ebdrup Jensen -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org