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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:51:05 +0300
From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
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To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.6: unused code under drivers/message/fusion/
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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


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