On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:59:18 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 06:47:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Yes, I agree. As long as we reasonably think that a piece of code *will*
> > become acceptable within a reasonable amount of time then going early is
> > safe.
>
>
> Definitly not the case for areca. The only progress at all is where people
> like Arjan, Randy or me did very intensive babysitting. And it's still far
> from beeing there.
>
> And especially in scsi land I'm absolutely against putting in more substandard
> drivers. The subsystem is still badly plagued from lots of old drivers that
> aren't up to any standards, and we need to decrease the maintaince load due
> to odd drivers not increase it even further.
So.. How are we going to get the Areca controllers supported in Linux?
The code's been sitting in -mm for over a year and the vendor does have
staff assigned to work on it.
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