On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:00:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It really boils down to the fact that I'm perfectly happy to let new > drivers slip in after the merge window in order to help end users. But > really - there has to be a limit to it. Not just anything. > > It has to help end users, and dammit, you have to admit that 50 kloc is > damn well not just "another random driver". So would it be acceptable to merge the 50 kloc of crap _during_ the merge window? Crap is crap, no matter when it is merged. In this particular case, the crap is its own subsystem, and wouldn't interfere with the rest of the kernel tree. So it's no more risky to merge it outside of merge window; so the decision about whether merge 50 kloc of crap shouldn't be impacted about whether we are in our out of the merge window. Arguably, the question is whether it's better for the end users to merge this at _any_ time, or whether we force the manufacturer to drop it into the staging tree provisionally until it can be cleaned up. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
