From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: ETA for Areca RAID driver (arcmsr) in mainline?
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:17:41 +0100
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Am Donnerstag, 22. Dezember 2005 06:34 schrieb Lee Revell:
> On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 22:20 -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > I just got a shiny new (for me at least, the card has been out for
> > months) Areca RAID card.
> > 
> > The driver (arcmsr) is in the -mm kernel, but hasn't yet made it to the
> > mainline kernel. I'm curious what remains to be done before this can
> > happen?
> 
> Well, often all that's needed are some user reports that the driver
> works for them.

Is that a reasonable strategy? Why is a _new_ driver present only in -mm?
It hardly can break anything. It is possible that Andrew is quicker merging
but still I can't see the advantage if this persists for any length of time.

	Regards
		Oliver
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