Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030322AbWHXF4G (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:56:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030326AbWHXF4F (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:56:05 -0400 Received: from mail.gurulabs.com ([67.137.148.7]:21134 "EHLO mail.gurulabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030322AbWHXF4D (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:56:03 -0400 Subject: Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18? From: Dax Kelson To: Greg KH Cc: James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , Theodore Bullock , robm@fastmail.fm, brong@fastmail.fm, erich@areca.com.tw, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060824034246.GA18826@suse.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> <20060824034246.GA18826@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:56:00 -0600 Message-Id: <1156398960.4256.25.camel@thud.gurulabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1443 Lines: 38 On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 20:42 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 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. > > What distros would that be? And how do you know that they are going to > freeze their kernels at 2.6.18? Well, I don't know for sure, but thankfully most distro development is pretty transparent. The current Fedora Core 6 development (and consequently RHEL5 and CentOS5) is using 2.6.18-rc kernels (actually as of yesterday, your git tree). The current plan is for Debian Etch to freeze on October 18th with a release in December. There is a good possibility they'll move from 2.6.17 to .18. Dax Kelson - 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/