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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.3.4 && Aic79xx 2.0.5 Updates
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:08:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031227060858.GA19523@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2906490000.1072499170@aslan.scsiguy.com>

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 09:26:10PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 18:13, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > I'm prepared to allow driver writers a considerable amount of slack in
> > terms of deviation from the coding standards, useless and obfuscating
> > compatibility layers and #ifdef'd code that can never be compiled in
> > 2.6; however, this attempt to hijack the basic SCSI APIs within the
> > adaptec driver is unacceptable.  Please take it out and resubmit the
> > patch without it.
> 
> I'm sorry you feel that way.  I suppose I will just have to continue
> to point distributors and users of this driver to my own patch sets since
> that seems to be the only viable alternative you've given me.

Red Hat has a very strong "do it in upstream first" policy these days.

There are reasons for this, and this situation is _precisely_ why.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-27  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-03 23:51 (unknown) Justin T. Gibbs
2003-06-03 23:58 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-06-04  1:34 ` Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-24 16:58   ` Aic7x_x_x 6.3.4 && Aic79xx 2.0.5 Updates Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-24 17:50     ` James Bottomley
     [not found]       ` <2148850000.1072292121@aslan.scsiguy.com>
2003-12-24 19:05         ` James Bottomley
2003-12-25  4:31           ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-26 18:36             ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27  0:13               ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-27  3:20                 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27  4:26                   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-27  6:08                     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-12-27 15:11                     ` Alan Cox
2003-12-27 15:47                       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2003-12-27 15:52                     ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27 15:17               ` Alan Cox
2003-12-27 15:54                 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-27 23:55                   ` Alan Cox
2003-12-27 16:02                 ` Justin T. Gibbs

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