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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:58:47 +0300
From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
CC: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>, mpt_linux_developer@lsil.com,
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       "Shirron, Stephen" <Stephen.Shirron@lsil.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6: unused code under drivers/message/fusion/
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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.

Thanks,
Vlad

>>Vlad
> 
> 
> cu
> Adrian
> 
> [1] this is a slightly abbreviated version of the development model
>     Linus announced
> 

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