Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 20:04:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the "ciss" driver unmaintained? (For HP RAID/HBA cards) Message-ID: <202006020304.05234hp0015172@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20200601214832.jpudeti7he6u626j@nerd-thinkpad.local>
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> 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=246279>; > > > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246280 <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
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