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On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:59:18 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 06:47:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yes, I agree. As long as we reasonably think that a piece of code *will* > > become acceptable within a reasonable amount of time then going early is > > safe. > > > Definitly not the case for areca. The only progress at all is where people > like Arjan, Randy or me did very intensive babysitting. And it's still far > from beeing there. > > And especially in scsi land I'm absolutely against putting in more substandard > drivers. The subsystem is still badly plagued from lots of old drivers that > aren't up to any standards, and we need to decrease the maintaince load due > to odd drivers not increase it even further. So.. How are we going to get the Areca controllers supported in Linux? The code's been sitting in -mm for over a year and the vendor does have staff assigned to work on it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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