From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:44:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080223124445.db779e3c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802231229320.21332@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original
> > author of mvsas, but...
> >
> > Should we be adding new drivers during -rc?
>
> I'm personally of the opinion that a new driver that doesn't add anything
> but itself (ie no infrastructure changes etc) is fine. I'd rather have a
> new, rough driver that might work, than no driver at all, and it's not
> like it can cause a regression if you don't enable it.
>
Yes, I too think that adding new standalone code in late -rc is OK.
Especially drivers, because a new driver is a bugfix for people who own
that hardware!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 15:13 [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2 James Bottomley
2008-02-23 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 20:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-23 20:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-23 23:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 20:56 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-25 22:39 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-02-25 22:54 ` Byron Bradley
2008-02-26 9:28 ` Jean Delvare
2008-02-26 11:15 ` Alessandro Zummo
2008-02-23 23:01 ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-23 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-24 0:09 ` James Bottomley
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