[4789] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Help for Symbios Logic C810 scsi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Thu Oct 1 17:57:59 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 22:00:51 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Matthias Andree <mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981001172849.B870@emma1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 09:33:06PM +0200, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> > SYMBIOS Logic has been bought by LSI Logic in June 1998.
> > The change you propose will probably become obsolete in a couple
> > of months or perhaps it is already so.
>
> Even if so, we could then add just another name; what objections are
> there to including Symbios into the configuration option NOW?
There is no objection at all against your change. I just pointed out that
the name "SYMBIOS" will probably disappear from the Universe at the time
linux-2.2 will be available. On the other hand, most of commercial O/Ses
and *BSD systems are still referring to NCR53C8XX chips in their default
drivers, so linux is absolutely not out-of-date in this regard.
The real issue with controllers that are based on SYM53C8XX (probably soon
LSI53C8XX ??) chips is that end-users are most of the time provided with
documentations that donnot clearly (or not at all) refer to this
controller family. Something line "NCR53C8XX (Symbios / LSI Logic) ..
looks fine, but this is still not quite clear, in my opinion, for all
existing brand name shipping controllers based on this chip family.
Anyway, my reply to your mail was not objecting at all against your
suggestion that I probably should have applied (and proposed) since years.
But, reading your mail, it seemed to me that you haven't knowledwge of
SYMBIOS having been bought by LSI, and I just wanted to inform you and
other Linux users who ignored it and would be interested in knowing it.
Must I really be given a roasting for that?
Regards,
Gerard.
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