From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: erich <erich@areca.com.tw>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: About ARECA RAID driver for Linux i386/x86-64
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:10:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107490229.5502.52.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050202205141.0c28faf4.akpm@osdl.org>
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:51 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well that's a decision which the scsi maintainers will need to make. Lots
> of current drivers use LINUX_VERSION_CODE, even though we'd prefer they not
> do so. I don't know what the scsi policy is for new submissions.
Hey ... I have to have a policy now?
The policy generally is that new submissions need to use the latest
versions of the API. If the driver needs to work on 2.4, it should use
the 2.4 compat layer for 2.6 drivers (and if there's a problem or
something missing, we can update 2.4).
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-04 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 4:33 About ARECA RAID driver for Linux i386/x86-64 erich
2005-02-03 4:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-04 4:10 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-02-06 14:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] <000001c524bc$d3c546a0$0b02a8c0@kw.de>
[not found] ` <000c01c52626$32bae8d0$9300a8c0@erich2003>
2005-03-11 22:27 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-11 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-12 0:20 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] <000801c514c7$04ec0030$9300a8c0@erich2003>
2005-02-18 16:10 ` Linux Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-18 19:21 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] <001001c508d9$d97a17f0$9300a8c0@erich2003>
2005-02-03 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-03 10:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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