Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:03:50 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 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,
Given me another development tree of time to create one and it will be a done deal, but I have enough to clean up in what is started now.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development
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