Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965219AbWHXAUX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:20:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965222AbWHXAUX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:20:23 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:21259 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965219AbWHXAUW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:20:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:20:20 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Dax Kelson Cc: James Bottomley , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Theodore Bullock , robm@fastmail.fm, brong@fastmail.fm, erich@areca.com.tw, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18? Message-ID: <20060824002020.GH19810@stusta.de> References: <00a701c6b2b4$bb564b50$0e00cb0a@robm> <25E284CCA9C9A14B89515B116139A94D0C78805F@zrtphxm0.corp.nortel.com> <20060731200309.bd55c545.akpm@osdl.org> <1154530428.3683.0.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1156375551.4306.10.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1156375551.4306.10.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1528 Lines: 43 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:25:51PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:53 -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 20:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Ok, so how does this go from here into the mainline kernel? > > > > > > James has moved the driver into the scsi-misc tree, so I assume he has > > > 2.6.19 plans for it. > > > > Yes, that's the usual path for scsi-misc. > > > > James > > It would be great if the arcmsr driver could be included in 2.6.18 so it > can make into all the new distro releases that will be happening the > last 3-4 months of the year. > > It is completely self contained and it isn't changing any existing code > (ergo it can't break anything) so I believe there is quite a bit of > precedence for "late" inclusion in 2.6.18? >... It would for sure create a bad example for other people trying to get code merged outside the merge window... > Dax Kelson cu Adrian -- Gentoo kernels are 42 times more popular than SUSE kernels among KLive users (a service by SUSE contractor Andrea Arcangeli that gathers data about kernels from many users worldwide). There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Benjamin Disraeli - 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/