From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750738AbWFEL0L (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:26:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750975AbWFEL0L (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:26:11 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:14353 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750738AbWFEL0K (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jun 2006 07:26:10 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:26:10 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Ivan Novick Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: merging new drivers (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Message-ID: <20060605112610.GQ3955@stusta.de> References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605013223.GD17361@havoc.gtf.org> <20060604184711.0a328d18.akpm@osdl.org> <20060605085918.GB26766@infradead.org> <1149505820.10626.263059761@webmail.messagingengine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1149505820.10626.263059761@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:10:20PM +0100, Ivan Novick wrote: > > 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? Not a complete list, but a good way for finding 50 drivers that need work: grep scsi_module.c drivers/scsi/* > Ivan cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed