CentOS - Oct 2008 - Request for additional patch in CentOS Plus kernel

Hi,

I have an Adaptec eSATA card, model 1225SA:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sata/entry/AAR-1225SA/

Although the chipset is sata_sil24, it is not recognized by default by
the kernel because its PCI ID is different than the ones recognized by
this driver on the CentOS kernel. The driver recognizes PCI IDs such
as 0x3132, 0x0242, 0x3131, but not 0x0244, which is the one this card
has.

I found out that it works with the latest kernel, and that the patch
to make it work only adds the 0x0244 PCI ID to the list of IDs
recognized by the sata_sil24 driver. Here is the patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=464b3286b4aa459059c6fda85ba55185fd21d9fc;hp=70a3143af87c6ca188107cbd49ab5eec2c86c456

Following the instructions on the Wiki, I built a custom kernel based
on the CentOS Plus kernel, but adding this patch. The adapter worked
as expected with that kernel.

So I ask: Would it be possible to incorporate this patch to the
default set of patches applied on the CentOS Plus kernel? I would
really appreciate it since that would make it easier for me to keep
updated without worrying about the card.

Thanks a lot!
Filipe

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Adaptec eSATA card, model 1225SA:
>
http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/products/Controllers/Hardware/sata/entry/AAR-1225SA/
> 
> Although the chipset is sata_sil24, it is not recognized by default by
> the kernel because its PCI ID is different than the ones recognized by
> this driver on the CentOS kernel. The driver recognizes PCI IDs such
> as 0x3132, 0x0242, 0x3131, but not 0x0244, which is the one this card
> has.
> 
> I found out that it works with the latest kernel, and that the patch
> to make it work only adds the 0x0244 PCI ID to the list of IDs
> recognized by the sata_sil24 driver. Here is the patch:
>
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=464b3286b4aa459059c6fda85ba55185fd21d9fc;hp=70a3143af87c6ca188107cbd49ab5eec2c86c456
> 
> Following the instructions on the Wiki, I built a custom kernel based
> on the CentOS Plus kernel, but adding this patch. The adapter worked
> as expected with that kernel.
> 
> So I ask: Would it be possible to incorporate this patch to the
> default set of patches applied on the CentOS Plus kernel? I would
> really appreciate it since that would make it easier for me to keep
> updated without worrying about the card.
> 
You picked a good day to ask, I am getting ready to build the new plus
kernel for c5 right now :D

I will put that patch in there too if it applies cleanly for me.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:57, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> You picked a good day to ask, I am getting ready to build the new plus
> kernel for c5 right now :D
Great to know! :-D
> I will put that patch in there too if it applies cleanly for me.
Let me know if it doesn't. I included it in the specfile as
Patch400000 to go after the Patch99999 (last one in CentOS Plus), but
I don't think that's needed.

In any case, if you look at the patch you will see it's one line only,
so it's really trivial.

Let me know if I can help with anything else to get this patch included!

Thanks,
Filipe

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:57 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> You picked a good day to ask, I am getting ready to build the new plus
> kernel for c5 right now :D
Any luck with this? :)
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