From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750968AbWFELKU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:10:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750970AbWFELKU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:10:20 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:3776 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967AbWFELKU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:10:20 -0400 Message-Id: <1149505820.10626.263059761@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: On9MDPPKPAO1evMAAbNY+lpTA03u6Se0y+Y6MmL1gMgW 1149505820 From: "Ivan Novick" To: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Andrew Morton" Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 5022 (F2.72; T1.15; A1.62; B3.04; Q3.03) References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605013223.GD17361@havoc.gtf.org> <20060604184711.0a328d18.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605085918.GB26766@infradead.org> Subject: Re: merging new drivers (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) In-Reply-To: <20060605085918.GB26766@infradead.org> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:10:20 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. Is there a hit-list of old drivers that need work, in case someone is interested in helping? Ivan