From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268077AbUHQCRG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:17:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268076AbUHQCRG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:17:06 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:47037 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268078AbUHQCRD (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:17:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:15:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Warren Togami Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Merge I2O patches from -mm Message-Id: <20040816191508.428f1022.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <411F37CC.3020909@redhat.com> References: <411F37CC.3020909@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Warren Togami wrote: > > This is a request to please merge the I2O patches currently in Andrew > Morton's -mm tree into the mainline kernel. They resolve all known > reported issues with I2O RAID devices. If they can be included soon, it > would be possible to implement and test direct installation before FC3 > Test2 freeze. We'll get it in when Linus returns. > Also because Markus would never ask himself, I nominate Markus Lidel as > the "maintainer" of the 2.6 generic I2O layer. He has put a tremendous > amount of work into improving an otherwise neglected part of the kernel. No problem with that, but we wouldn't want to go adding Markus to ./MAINTAINERS without his approval. > Thanks to his efforts it is today usable and stable on multiple archs > and all known supported cards. yup.