[parisc-linux] sym53c8xx_2 development

[parisc-linux] sym53c8xx_2 development

[Matthew Wilcox]

Hi.  I've got some changes for the sym53c8xx_2 driver I'm working on.
Does anyone object to me working on them in the parisc 2.6 tree?
Obviously, I'll do my best to not break anything and I'll handle any
merge problems.

We've done this kind of thing before (eg with the pcnet32 driver in 2.4)
but since every PCI-based parisc box uses sym53c8xx_2 for its scsi,
I didn't feel it was appropriate to inflict potentially-buggy changes
on everyone without a little bit of discussion.

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Re: [parisc-linux] sym53c8xx_2 development

[Grant Grundler]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:19:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I've got some changes for the sym53c8xx_2 driver I'm working on.
> Does anyone object to me working on them in the parisc 2.6 tree?

I don't think enough people are *using* 2.6 for anything serious
for that to be a problem. And I'm ok if you warn before committing
stuff which isn't at least lightly tested.

> We've done this kind of thing before (eg with the pcnet32 driver in 2.4)

and I've done it with several other drivers as well (eg tg3, acenic).

> but since every PCI-based parisc box uses sym53c8xx_2 for its scsi,
> I didn't feel it was appropriate to inflict potentially-buggy changes
> on everyone without a little bit of discussion.

cool - thanks!
grant