Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: ETA for Areca RAID driver (arcmsr) in mainline? | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:17:41 +0100 |
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Am Donnerstag, 22. Dezember 2005 06:34 schrieb Lee Revell: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 22:20 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > > I just got a shiny new (for me at least, the card has been out for > > months) Areca RAID card. > > > > The driver (arcmsr) is in the -mm kernel, but hasn't yet made it to the > > mainline kernel. I'm curious what remains to be done before this can > > happen? > > Well, often all that's needed are some user reports that the driver > works for them.
Is that a reasonable strategy? Why is a _new_ driver present only in -mm? It hardly can break anything. It is possible that Andrew is quicker merging but still I can't see the advantage if this persists for any length of time.
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