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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:11:26 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:18:55AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:06:35AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The other related question is device driver implementation stuff (not interfaces
> > and abstractions). You don't seem to check that much anyway, or have any taste
> > in device drivers 8) so should that be part of the small fixing job ?
> 
> I've often dreamt of an overall "drivers maintainer" or perhaps just an
> unmaintained-drivers maintainer:  a person with taste who could give
> driver patches a glance, when noone else does.
> (and no I'm not volunteering :))

I have had that same dream too, Jeff :)
Especially after spelunking through the SCSI drivers, and being amazed
that only one of them uses the, now two year old, pci_register_driver()
interface (which means that only that driver works properly in PCI
hotplug systems.)

Having someone with "taste" to run driver patches by first would have
been a great help when I started out writing them.  I've been trying to
provide that resource for the new USB drivers.

greg k-h
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