Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:42:46 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18? |
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:25:51PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:53 -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 20:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Ok, so how does this go from here into the mainline kernel? > > > > > > James has moved the driver into the scsi-misc tree, so I assume he has > > > 2.6.19 plans for it. > > > > Yes, that's the usual path for scsi-misc. > > > > James > > It would be great if the arcmsr driver could be included in 2.6.18 so it > can make into all the new distro releases that will be happening the > last 3-4 months of the year.
What distros would that be? And how do you know that they are going to freeze their kernels at 2.6.18?
> It is completely self contained and it isn't changing any existing code > (ergo it can't break anything) so I believe there is quite a bit of > precedence for "late" inclusion in 2.6.18?
Then it can easily be bundled as a "kernel module package" for those same distros if this is the case :)
thanks,
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