Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:40:41 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
Cc: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>, mpt_linux_developer@lsil.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Shirron, Stephen" <Stephen.Shirron@lsil.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6: unused code under drivers/message/fusion/
Message-ID: <20041110094041.GI4089@stusta.de>
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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]

> Vlad

cu
Adrian

[1] this is a slightly abbreviated version of the development model
    Linus announced

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       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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