From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932175AbWIKWe6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932188AbWIKWe6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:34:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:7145 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932175AbWIKWe5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:34:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:31:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vgter.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cciss: version update, new hw Message-Id: <20060911153140.3f2433a9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060911213126.GA6867@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> References: <20060911213126.GA6867@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:31:26 -0500 "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" wrote: > This patch adds support for new hardware and bumps the version to 3.6.10. It > seems there were several changes introduced including soft_irq. I decided > to bump the major number to reflect these changes. Since we're still > supporting older vendor kernels I need some way differenciate between kernel > versions <=2.6.10 and newer kernels >=2.6.16. > I hate to send this in -rc6 but it seems like 2.6.18 is having a tough time > getting out the gate. Please consider this for inclusion. Adding a new device ID is a bit of a no-brainer - in fact bumping the version number seems more risky than adding a device ID. I'd be OK with a 2.6.18 merge, and shall send it into Linus unless Jens nacks it, or gets there first.