From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
fischer@norbit.de, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: fix isa/pcmcia compile problem
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:46:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47913A72.5040607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1200699173.3111.77.camel@localhost.localdomain>
James Bottomley wrote:
>> I personally think it's a bit odd to disallow building into kernel
>> because of the peculiarity of the implementation (including c files and
>> compiling them slightly differently) and also no one reporting doesn't
>> necessarily mean no one has attempted it and failed.
>
> Heh ... I'll make you a deal. Find just one user of one of these
> drivers who can make use of them built in, and I'll apply the patch.
I don't think I can. I didn't even know they were isa ones before
actually looking at the code.
> I'm just a bit reluctant to touch these drivers, since they're all
> incredibly ancient. We don't have good luck with simple transformation
> patches on the older drivers ... and it seems to take months before
> anyone notices there's a problem.
Alright then, please go ahead and disallow built-in.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-18 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080117023514.9df393cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-17 16:15 ` 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Build Failure on scsi driver Kamalesh Babulal
2008-01-17 19:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-18 0:53 ` [PATCH] aha152x: fix isa/pcmcia compile problem Tejun Heo
2008-01-18 6:29 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-01-18 6:37 ` 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Build Failure on scsi driver Kamalesh Babulal
2008-01-18 7:20 ` [PATCH] SCSI: fix isa/pcmcia compile problem Tejun Heo
2008-01-18 7:30 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-01-18 14:58 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-18 23:27 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-18 23:28 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-18 23:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-18 23:46 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-01-18 23:47 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-18 23:54 ` Tejun Heo
2008-01-21 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-21 14:59 ` James Bottomley
2008-01-18 7:27 ` 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 Build Failure on scsi driver Andrew Morton
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