On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:18:23 +1000 > "Robert Mueller" <robm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The driver went into 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 here: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110754432622498&w=2 > > One and a half years. > > Would the world end if we just merged the dang thing? Not the world perhaps, but I'm unwilling to concede that if a driver author is given a list of major issues and does nothing, then the driver should go in after everyone gets impatient. The rules for inclusion are elastic and include broad leeway for good behaviour, but this would stretch the elasticity way beyond breaking point. The list of issues is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114556263632510 Most of the serious stuff is fixed with the exception of: - sysfs has more than one value per file - BE platform support - PAE (cast of dma_addr_t to unsigned long) issues. - SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is ignored. This is wrong. The sync cache in the shutdown notifier isn't sufficient. At least the sysfs files have to be fixed before it goes in ... unless you want to be lynched by Greg? What I could do is set up a holding tree for all the fixed ... but -mm is doing a good job of that at the moment. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
