linux-kernel - RE: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Request for discussion on when to merge drivers

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:15:27 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	"ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
	<ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Request for discussion on when to merge
	drivers

> Experience has shown that for most SCSI drivers, the authors tend to be
> the people producing the hardware and without documentation, no-one else
> can fix up anything other than obvious coding errors, so we can't put it
> in the tree and hope someone else will fix it if they have a problem.

Is there an opportunity for a carrot here ... a driver submitted
*with documentation* gets a faster path into the tree?

-Tony
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