>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: James> I support the concept, since I think everyone told LSI at the James> time that splitting the drivers would become a maintenance James> nightmare. And it is. I'd like to see these drivers merged as well. James> One of the big reasons we don't have a lot of leverage with them James> is that they always seem to slide updates around upstream via the James> distros (often, it has to be admitted the DKM route), so if Red James> Hat, SUSE, Oracle and Canonical can agree not to accept LSI James> updates until the driver is done this way, we'd have a lot more James> leverage. Unless it's a trivial bug fix Oracle won't take anything that's not accepted upstream. We are working with Avago/LSI to streamline their driver process to be a better fit for both upstream development and distro kernels. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
