From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: AMD 53c974 SCSI driver in 2.6
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:06:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031100651.A15290@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031031095910.GD2716@tpkurt.garloff.de>; from garloff@suse.de on Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:59:10AM +0100
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:59:10AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:47:42AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Any reason why we'd keep both drivers? Given that there's not much ressources
> > for fixing drivers for older hardware I'd rather see us not keeping multiple
> > drivers for the same hardware.
>
> As long as there are people willing to do the work, there's no reason to
> drop any of them.
Well, yes. If we had two properly maintained drivers there would be
no reason to drop one. But we currently have two broken drivers, one of
them just resurrected to compiling and mostly working on UP state..
--
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - Freelance Hacker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-25 21:42 AMD 53c974 SCSI driver in 2.6 Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-10-26 19:49 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-10-30 22:12 ` [PATCH] " Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-10-30 23:52 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-10-31 9:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-31 9:59 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-10-31 10:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-10-31 9:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-31 11:25 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-10-31 11:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-31 12:19 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2003-10-31 13:09 ` Russell King
2003-11-02 19:22 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
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2003-12-11 9:01 Tomas Martisius
2003-12-11 11:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-11 20:10 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
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