Updating a driver that uses ata_cmd to run under 6.0-Release

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 15 07:40:42 PST 2005


On Tuesday 15 November 2005 08:53 am, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I posted this in hackers, but it seems that was the wrong list, so I'll
> try here.  If this is still the wrong place to post, please let me know
> so I don't continue to look like an ass...  Thanks.
>
>
> I'm trying to use an AoE (ata over ethernet) EtherDrive (from
> coraid.com), but their "FreeBSD 6.0" kernel patch seems to have been
> developed against 6.0 early on, or they just renamed the 5.x patch and
> hoped no one would notice.  Needless to say, the patch fails to compile
> because they are using the ata_cmd struct, which seems to have been
> totally rewritten in 6.0.

Your best bet might be to talk to the ata driver author sos at FreeBSD.org.

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