From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:56:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203800172.3139.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802231229320.21332@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:31 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original
> > author of mvsas, but...
> >
> > Should we be adding new drivers during -rc?
>
> I'm personally of the opinion that a new driver that doesn't add anything
> but itself (ie no infrastructure changes etc) is fine. I'd rather have a
> new, rough driver that might work, than no driver at all, and it's not
> like it can cause a regression if you don't enable it.
That is the case for this one. The two patches only touch the mvsas.c
file (and Makefile and Kconfig to build it, of course).
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 15:13 [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2 James Bottomley
2008-02-23 20:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 20:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-23 20:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 23:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-23 20:56 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2008-02-23 23:01 ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-23 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-24 0:09 ` James Bottomley
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