Is the "ciss" driver unmaintained? (For HP RAID/HBA cards)

[Daniel Ebdrup Jensen]

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>
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>  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
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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. :)

Yours,
Daniel Ebdrup Jensen
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