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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] sym53c8xx_2 development
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:43:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030823054322.GA20158@dsl2.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030821211932.GC19630@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-23  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-21 21:19 [parisc-linux] sym53c8xx_2 development Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-23  5:43 ` Grant Grundler [this message]

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