From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: About ARECA RAID driver for Linux i386/x86-64 Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:10:28 -0600 Message-ID: <1107490229.5502.52.camel@mulgrave> References: <003f01c509a9$87913290$9300a8c0@erich2003> <20050202205141.0c28faf4.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:8384 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270810AbVBDELD (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 23:11:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050202205141.0c28faf4.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: erich , SCSI Mailing List 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