Re: TMSCSIM [2.6]

[Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>]

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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > PS: now that the driver seems to be in better shape, you might want to
> > bump the driver version number  reported in the banner,
> > "Tekram DC390/AM53C974 PCI SCSI Host Adapter, Driver Version 2.0f
> > 2000-12-20".
> 
> Yep. Kurt, Christian, shall I increment the version number (2.0g / 2.1a?),
> adding a Changelog entry? Also, how shall it be maintained now, until it
> is included in the stock 2.6 (hopefully)? Is there a linux-scsi tree,
> where this driver could be merged in, or just an ftp site, where the patch
> could be uploaded? I am not using BK (don't think it would make much sense
> with a 56K modem dial-up:-)).

Well, 2.1a seems a reasonable version number.
Please add a changelog entry. You should get the credits for doing all
the work for porting the driver! Thanks again!

I can put it for download on my site; 
we should try to push it into 2.6.0/1, of course.

> No, wouldn't do that. It would unnecessarily blow the patch up...

I wouldn't do it either.
Then better have two patches, one doing only functional changes, one
only changing formatting.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@garloff.de>             [Koeln, DE]
Physics:Plasma modeling <garloff@plasimo.phys.tue.nl> [TU Eindhoven, NL]
Linux:SCSI, Security           <garloff@suse.de>    [SUSE Nuernberg, DE]

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