Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] isci: core

Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-15T17:55:38Z

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:47:12PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Let's get this driver into staging for 2.6.39, if it isn't going to
> hit the merge window for 2.6.39.
>
> It would lame for such [presumably] high volume hardware to be in
> neither the main kernel, nor staging, at 2.6.39 release time.

What's the point of staging? That just causes tons of poinless churn.
Linus has made it clear that normal high volume hardware drivers can go
in after the merge window. So let's just polish it for another few
weeks and then put it in where it belongs.