From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:43:22 -0600 From: Grant Grundler To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] sym53c8xx_2 development Message-ID: <20030823054322.GA20158@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030821211932.GC19630@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030821211932.GC19630@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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