From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:46:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:45:02 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:60178 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:40:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:38:31 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Alan Cox cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Submissions for 2.4.19-pre [sdmany (Richard Gooch)] [Discuss :) ] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > Even if your hack reflected the newer table it would still be an ugly hack > for a few special case situations rather than any notion of release quality. > Its a very clever devfs hack, but its still an ugly hack > > Do it right, and do it in 2.5 Hate to say it but 2.5 is not ready for any kind of production use, and some people really need to connect more SCSI devices than are currently supported. That's NOT ivory tower, it's real world "do it with Linux" problem solving. If you have a "do it right" solution which is stable, for a stable kernel, please let us know. This isn't a theoretical problem. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.