From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:40:40 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041021234040.GA23511@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e041021134269c05f17@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:42:18PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:24:51 -0400, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> > Okay, patch withdrawn.
> >
> > I'll just apply it to my own kernels for my own use.
>
> Just port it to 2.6.x...
>
> > Whatever happended to the days when Linux *wanted* more
> > drivers and such?
>
> New drivers are still welcomed... but days of applying
> new drivers without any complaints are long gone... ;-)
>
> Now speaking seriously:
> * 2.4.x is deprecated (sorry, Marcelo ;)
Buaaaahhh...
Hehe.
People still use 2.4 because they are not prepared (for whatever reason)
to or do not want a v2.6 upgrade, but yes, I agree it is deprecated.
> * this driver shouldn't require much work to port it to 2.6.x
As I said before in my opinion drivers in new v2.4.x releases for
new devices are OK as long as they meet a decent coding and quality
standard and are well tested.
And, very importantly, benefit a substantial amount of users.
Having the driver in v2.6 first is pretty much required.
It has the chance of being put under test, as well as
passing Linus/Andrew "level of acceptance", plus reviewing
from other people which is always good.
Mark, v2.4.28 is approaching -rc stage (-rc1 should be out tomorrow),
we can include the driver during v2.4.29-pre.
In the meantime you can port it to v2.6 ?
> * ide_unregister() is disallowed, unless IDE locking is fixed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 18:44 [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk6] delkin_cb: new driver for Cardbus IDE CF adaptor Mark Lord
2004-10-21 19:13 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 20:24 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 20:42 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 20:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 21:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 22:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 21:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 21:59 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 22:02 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 23:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-10-21 21:04 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-21 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 22:49 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-21 22:57 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-22 0:07 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-22 0:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-22 0:20 ` Mark Lord
2004-10-22 0:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-23 11:08 ` Mark Lord
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