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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:02:35 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers by deinlining
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:43:24PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Aug 28 2007 20:55, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> >> Fwiw I do like your debloat patch a lot; it's just only half the
> >> equation ... if you also do the namespace fixes, I bet the driver
> >> debloats even more...
> >
> >Yes, I know, and I am happy to do that too. I just don't know
> >whether patches will be accepted.
> >
> >Why this patch is not commented on by scsi people?
> >Am I sending patches to wrong people/lists?
> 
> Well, you can send it to Linus/Andrew, that will usually upset people and they
> start commenting on it. Or they don't, and everything is fine.
> (The "default y" approach so to speak ;-)

The problem is that we don't really have a maintainer for the aic7xyz
drivers any more.  Volunteers welcome.  NOT IT!

-- 
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