Subject: Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18?
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:34:03 +0200
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On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 23:56 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> 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).

.. and those distros can't pull in this driver because..... ?


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