Subject: Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 10:34 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> > 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..... ?

FC6 policy is to follow upstream very closely. RHEL may vary.

I don't think its fair to ask Greg to make this decision and James has
already given a clear answer.

Alan

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