Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Erik Andersen
2002-01-30T23:49:11Z

On Wed Jan 30, 2002 at 11:06:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > bravery. That pile of dung does not need a "small-stuff"
> > maintainer. It needs to be forcefully ejected and replaced with
> > extreme prejudice. It is amazing that ancient stuff works as
> > well as it does...
>
> A lot of the apparently really ugly drivers turned out to be very good code
> hiding under 10 years of history and core code changes and
> assumptions. See the NCR5380 stuff I've now all done (in 2.4.18pre) - dont
> use 2.5.* NCR5380 it'll probably corrupt your system if it doesn't just die
> or hang - Linus apparently merged untested stuff to the old broken driver.

This is in the latest -ac kernels? Cool, I'll go take a close
look. I'm very anxious to see a SCSI layer that doesn't suck
get put in place,

-Erik

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