From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261676AbVCNSC7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:02:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261660AbVCNR6q (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:58:46 -0500 Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.133.213.200]:35857 "EHLO relay.sw.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261659AbVCNRzo (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:55:44 -0500 Message-ID: <4235CFFD.1040006@vlnb.net> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:55:09 +0300 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: "Moore, Eric Dean" , mpt_linux_developer@lsil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Shirron, Stephen" Subject: Re: 2.6: unused code under drivers/message/fusion/ References: <91888D455306F94EBD4D168954A9457C2D1E91@nacos172.co.lsil.com> <4191CD47.1000205@vlnb.net> <20041110094041.GI4089@stusta.de> <4191E657.1030409@vlnb.net> <20050312113142.GB3156@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20050312113142.GB3156@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:58:47PM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > >>Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >>>On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:11:51AM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Moore, Eric Dean wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>We need to hold off on this change. Yes, there are >>>>>customers of LSI Logic using mptstm.c, as >>>>>part of the target-mode drivers. >>>>> >>>>>The proposed generic target mode drivers proposal is yet part >>>>>of the kernel. >>>>>http://scst.sourceforge.net/ >>>>>We are looking into supporting this once its available. >>>> >>>>Well, SCST is already available, stable and useful. People use it >>>>without considerable problems, except with inconvenient LUNs management, >>>>which we are going to fix in the next version. I don't expect it will be >>>>considering for the kernel inclusion at least until 2.7. So, you can >>>>start supporting it right now :-). >>> >>> >>>With the current kernel development model, there is no 2.7 planned for >>>the next years. >>> >>>Linus and Andrew believe 6 was an odd number, so you could submit your >>>code now. [1] >> >>OK, I'll prepare the next version as the kernel patch. > > > Any news regarding this? Unfortunately, I have not much time for it now, so I can't expect release of 0.9.3 version, which is going to have the patch, earlier than in May. But I'm ready to publish 0.9.3-pre1 as well as some bugfixes in the Qlogic driver in the nearest future, as soon as I settle down some untechnical stuff. If somebody is interested, I can send him a copy privately. As before, it still has ZERO modifications of the kernel, so it could live perfectly outside the tree. Also, everybody who think that he/she can help in testing, developing, bugfixing or just commenting/suggesting are welcome. Vlad