Re: [BK PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.6

Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-05-18T19:48:09Z

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Kurt Garloff wrote:

> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:54:33PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:29, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > I hoped the tmscsim 64-bit bugfix would somehow find its way into the
> > > mainstream after 2.6. Does it still have a chance?
> >
> > The DC390 is a maintained driver:
> >
> > DC390/AM53C974 SCSI driver
> > P: Kurt Garloff
> > M: garloff@suse.de
> > W: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/
> > S: Maintained
> >
> > You need to get the maintainer to approve acceptance.
>
> Granted ;-)
>
> Actually, I had discussed the patch before with Guennadi and agreed to
> it. As I don't really have much time any more for it, I would suggest
> that Guennadi takes over, if he wants to.

Well, Kurt, thanks for the offer. I am prepared and willing to do the work
on supporting the driver, but I am, perhaps, not skilled enough to be a
maintainer of a SCSI LDD. My knowledge of the SCSI protocol and the SCSI
Linux subsystem is pretty limited. On one hand, the driver is little used,
so, even if I badly break something it is not likely to cause major
problems. On the other hand, I would feel more comfortable if, at least at
the beginning, somebody would review my patches. Besides, it would be a
good opportunity for me to really learn a bit more about SCSI, SCSI Linux
driver, BIO,... oh well...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski