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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:03:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Wed Jan 30, 2002 at 11:06:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > bravery.  That pile of dung does not need a "small-stuff"
> > > maintainer.  It needs to be forcefully ejected and replaced with
> > > extreme prejudice.  It is amazing that ancient stuff works as
> > > well as it does...
> > 
> > A lot of the apparently really ugly drivers turned out to be very good code
> > hiding under 10 years of history and core code changes and
> > assumptions. See the NCR5380 stuff I've now all done (in 2.4.18pre) - dont 
> > use 2.5.* NCR5380 it'll probably corrupt your system if it doesn't just die
> > or hang - Linus apparently merged untested stuff to the old broken driver.
> 
> This is in the latest -ac kernels?  Cool, I'll go take a close
> look.  I'm very anxious to see a SCSI layer that doesn't suck
> get put in place,

Given me another development tree of time to create one and it will be a
done deal, but I have enough to clean up in what is started now.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project                Linux ATA Development

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