On Monday 09 October 2006 16:31, Dr. Harold K. Brown, P.E. wrote:
I believe it would be beneficial for Etch users to have a Raid 6
installation option that really works at time of installation. I can
help with testing and even do some patches. My time is limited, and I
do know time is short with the upcoming planned Etch stable release.
If the installation team is open for this, please contact me and let me
know the best way to approach this if there is a desire to include this
capability into the installation disk.
Adding support is always great. However, as you rightly say, the timing is
tight. Too tight IMO: we are currently preparing the first Release
Candidate of the installer for Etch and we will be hard pressed to solve
the outstanding issues for that.
Of course, if it is only a question of adding the driver and no changes
are needed in the installer itself, getting support is completely up to
the kernel team and the installer will follow almost automatically.
I don't really see us adding new functionality in the installer itself at
this late date, especially as it cannot be tested before the driver has
been included by the kernel team _and_ the installer has been switched to
2.6.18.
Your contributions to get support it will still be very welcome though and
they would certainly be considered for addition after Etch. If the
changes are small, ready in time and tested, we could even reconsider.
This would require an addition of a device driver with a risk factor
that I believe to be low. Currently the drive is open source and has
been included into the Git Tree at kernel.org. The driver is supported
by the company now and complies with the kernel code writing standards.
I believe the drivers will be included in the 2.6.19 or 2.6.20
kernel.org. However, I understand that Etch will use 2.6.16 or 2.6.18
and thus the driver will not be included.
Please contact the kernel team for this. It is not an installer team
decision.
Cheers,
FJP