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On 07/30/2012 10:08 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 21:06 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>> So while this would work, I do wonder however whether we could
>> instead
>>> fix it by simplifying the whole thing as follow since iSeries is now
>>> gone and so we don't need split backends anymore:
>>>
>>> scsi/ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction
>>
>> I cant that these things myself anymore.
> 
> Brian, can somebody from your side own these ?

I talked to Rob and he will be picking this up. Rob - can you submit
a patch to the maintainers file, adding yourself as the ibmvscsi maintainer?

Thanks,

Brian

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Brian King
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