linux-kernel - Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18?

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Message-ID: <20060824034246.GA18826@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:42:46 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Dax Kelson <dax@...ulabs.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Theodore Bullock <tbullock@...tel.com>, robm@...tmail.fm,
	brong@...tmail.fm, erich@...ca.com.tw, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Areca arcmsr kernel integration for 2.6.18?

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:25:51PM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 10:53 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 20:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Ok, so how does this go from here into the mainline kernel?
> > > 
> > > James has moved the driver into the scsi-misc tree, so I assume he has
> > > 2.6.19 plans for it.
> > 
> > Yes, that's the usual path for scsi-misc.
> > 
> > James
> 
> It would be great if the arcmsr driver could be included in 2.6.18 so it
> can make into all the new distro releases that will be happening the
> last 3-4 months of the year.

What distros would that be?  And how do you know that they are going to
freeze their kernels at 2.6.18?

> It is completely self contained and it isn't changing any existing code
> (ergo it can't break anything) so I believe there is quite a bit of
> precedence for "late" inclusion in 2.6.18?

Then it can easily be bundled as a "kernel module package" for those
same distros if this is the case :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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