From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
james.bottomley@suse.de, dave.jiang@intel.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jacek.danecki@intel.com,
ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, jeffrey.d.skirvin@intel.com,
edmund.nadolski@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] isci: core
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:55:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110315175533.GA8291@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D7FA620.10004@garzik.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-10 10:54 [RFC PATCH 00/10] isci: core Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:54 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] isci/core: controller Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:54 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] isci/core: phy Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:54 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] isci/core: port Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:54 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] isci/core: remote device Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:54 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] isci/core: remote node context Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:54 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] isci/core: stp Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:54 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] isci/core: request (general, ssp and smp) Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] isci/core: unsolicited frame handling and registers Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] isci/core: base state machine and memory descriptors Dan Williams
2011-03-10 10:55 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] isci/core: common definitions and utility functions Dan Williams
2011-03-30 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-15 17:47 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] isci: core Jeff Garzik
2011-03-15 17:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-03-15 18:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-03-15 20:13 ` Dan Williams
2011-03-15 21:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-03-18 15:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-19 6:19 ` Dan Williams
2011-03-27 22:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-30 1:22 ` Dan Williams
2011-03-30 7:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-31 0:20 ` Dan Williams
2011-03-31 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
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