From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
       "ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:15:27 -0700
Subject: RE: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Request for discussion on when to merge
	drivers
Thread-Topic: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Request for discussion on when to merge
	drivers
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> Experience has shown that for most SCSI drivers, the authors tend to be
> the people producing the hardware and without documentation, no-one else
> can fix up anything other than obvious coding errors, so we can't put it
> in the tree and hope someone else will fix it if they have a problem.

Is there an opportunity for a carrot here ... a driver submitted
*with documentation* gets a faster path into the tree?

-Tony
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