From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265173AbUBDBFv (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:05:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265902AbUBDBFv (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:05:51 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:51937 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265173AbUBDBFs (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:05:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:03:25 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "Woodruff, Robert J" Cc: Troy Benjegerdes , "Woodruff, Robert J" , infiniband-general@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel Message-ID: <20040204010325.GB23386@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:17:36PM -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > > I heard from a friend of mine that 2.6 was closed to new features. > What sayith the community on allowing additional experimental drivers > (like the infiniband access layer) into 2.6 ? Can we still submit > something or do we have to wait till 2.7 ? If it's a subsystem that does not touch any of the existing kernel (with the exception of adding it to the build and Kconfig), then it probably will not be a problem to add. But then again, that all depends on what the code looks like, and none of us have seen that yet :) thanks, greg k-h