Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Aix7xxx unstable in 2.4.21-rc2? (RE: Linux 2.4.21-rc2) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 27 May 2003 01:35:09 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-05-26 at 05:25, David S. Miller wrote: > I really want something more -ac paced although that may be too extreme > for some people. :-)
Its up to Marcelo. If he wants to hand it on to me now 2.2 is basically a one day a month job he can, or to someone else.
One thing I will say however - I'd have done the *same* thing as Marcelo with aic7xxx during -rc which is to defer it. A maintainer gets a continual stream of "completely tested utterly reliable fixes everything" drivers, none of which prove to be so. The simple truth is that when you give something to 10,000 users instead of 20 something breaks. Its not that authors suck its just another testimony to the fact computer programming is still firmly at the alchemy not the chemistry end of its history.
If the driver works well fine, but maintainers don't have the ability to see into the future either.
Alan
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