From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.3.4 && Aic79xx 2.0.5 Updates Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:08:58 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031227060858.GA19523@gtf.org> References: <3637050000.1054690456@aslan.scsiguy.com> <2113050000.1072285128@aslan.scsiguy.com> <1072288242.1906.35.camel@mulgrave> <2148850000.1072292121@aslan.scsiguy.com> <1072292714.2415.39.camel@mulgrave> <2304040000.1072326693@aslan.scsiguy.com> <1072463795.1873.127.camel@mulgrave> <2832150000.1072484024@aslan.scsiguy.com> <1072495231.1873.363.camel@mulgrave> <2906490000.1072499170@aslan.scsiguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([63.247.75.124]:132 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265331AbTL0GI7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:08:59 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2906490000.1072499170@aslan.scsiguy.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: James Bottomley , SCSI Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Marcelo Tosatti , Andrew Morton 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