From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750807AbWFEI7V (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 04:59:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750809AbWFEI7V (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 04:59:21 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:9619 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbWFEI7V (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 04:59:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:59:18 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: merging new drivers (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Message-ID: <20060605085918.GB26766@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605013223.GD17361@havoc.gtf.org> <20060604184711.0a328d18.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060604184711.0a328d18.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.