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    SubjectRe: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
    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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