Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261224AbVBGS3b (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:29:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261225AbVBGS3b (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:29:31 -0500 Received: from web30206.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.200.89]:34964 "HELO web30206.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261224AbVBGS3W (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:29:22 -0500 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=McEzWFDzILcQRGCR2vLeF7sDRgaygfgmAWWMYhRxH0JV90m0/jv6siHbF61lPLMMnggIvC5pkcUuSD3ZFTmYpC3HMwIAbrIvTTKlFSME5LkEslOcHz/3yOAU0/Ga+B77dbKu+wW39DXRm2ovlTpb05pZrija/mOQTK0Ln4AbsWg= ; Message-ID: <20050207182921.3015.qmail@web30206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:29:21 -0800 (PST) From: Martins Krikis Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29 To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Martins Krikis , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <1107701373.22680.115.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2218 Lines: 61 --- Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > I consider it not a new feature, but a missing feature, since > otherwise > > user data cannot be accessed in the RAID setups. > > the same is true for all new hardware drivers and hardware support > patches. And for new DRM (since new X may need it) and new .. and > new ... where is the line? > > for me a deep maintenance mode is about keeping existing stuff > working; > all new hw support and derivative hardware support (such as this) can > be > pointed at the new stable series... which has been out for quite some > time now.. Would it help my case if I swore that iswraid has been released for longer than the "new stable series" and that it is in "deep maintenance mode" itself, just outside the 2.4 kernel tree? (Version 0.0.6 (for 2.4.22) was announced Nov. 24, 2003.) I do realize that Intel should have asked a long time ago for it to be considered for acceptance (I did ask back in October for 2.4.28). But there are positive aspects to accepting a driver late---there is a much higher chance that all the issues have been solved. (If there are any particular worries about the newly added RAID1E code, well, it's only useful for ICH7R, I'd be almost as happy if an older version without it got accepted.) To conclude, Marcelo's words back in October 9 were: "New drivers are OK, as long as they don't break existing setups, and if substantial amount of users will benefit from it." So here is a "new driver" (that's been around for a while) which I don't think can break anything. As to the "substantial amount of users", the two SourceForge releases with download statistics have each seen about 800 downloads, I have no idea whether that counts as substantial. Martins Krikis Storage Components Division Intel Massachusetts __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/