Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762938AbYBWU41 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754180AbYBWU4R (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:17 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:55409 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753235AbYBWU4Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2 From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1203779614.3139.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47C08134.2030205@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:56:12 -0600 Message-Id: <1203800172.3139.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 26 On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:31 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original > > author of mvsas, but... > > > > Should we be adding new drivers during -rc? > > I'm personally of the opinion that a new driver that doesn't add anything > but itself (ie no infrastructure changes etc) is fine. I'd rather have a > new, rough driver that might work, than no driver at all, and it's not > like it can cause a regression if you don't enable it. That is the case for this one. The two patches only touch the mvsas.c file (and Makefile and Kconfig to build it, of course). James -- 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/