Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030196AbWHXQWH (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:22:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030373AbWHXQWH (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:22:07 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:44020 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030196AbWHXQWE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:22:04 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18? Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:21:01 -0400 Message-ID: <25E284CCA9C9A14B89515B116139A94D0D353411@zrtphxm0.corp.nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <1156419687.3007.98.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18? Thread-Index: AcbHb1NY8ea1qixiTTa/95olxDwmYgAJhYXQ From: "Theodore Bullock" To: "Alan Cox" , "Arjan van de Ven" Cc: "Dax Kelson" , "Greg KH" , "James Bottomley" , "Andrew Morton" , , , , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1840 Lines: 45 I posted a feature enchancement request to the Novell bugzilla for the 10.2 openSUSE release (currently scheduled for 2.6.18 AFAIK, depends on upstream timelines), and the response from Greg was this: "If this driver is in the mainline kernel, it will show up in our releases, and that's the only way we can accept it at this point in time. We will not backport it to an older kernel version." If the driver goes into 2.6.19 this means 8 to 12 months of time before our workstations will be supported enough by Novell to start a more widespread deployment in the company out of the test lab. We would prefer this driver to be made available earlier, if only to make installation more feasible and kernel upgrades possible. -Ted Bullock Nortel Networks -----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] Sent: August 24, 2006 5:41 AM To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Dax Kelson; Greg KH; James Bottomley; Andrew Morton; Bullock, Theodore (WIC:2J00); 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? 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 - 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/