Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:48:48 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed Jan 30, 2002 at 11:06:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > bravery. That pile of dung does not need a "small-stuff" > > maintainer. It needs to be forcefully ejected and replaced with > > extreme prejudice. It is amazing that ancient stuff works as > > well as it does... > > A lot of the apparently really ugly drivers turned out to be very good code > hiding under 10 years of history and core code changes and > assumptions. See the NCR5380 stuff I've now all done (in 2.4.18pre) - dont > use 2.5.* NCR5380 it'll probably corrupt your system if it doesn't just die > or hang - Linus apparently merged untested stuff to the old broken driver.
This is in the latest -ac kernels? Cool, I'll go take a close look. I'm very anxious to see a SCSI layer that doesn't suck get put in place,
-Erik
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