Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the linux kernel

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 20:08:21 EST


On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:17:36PM -0800, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
>
> I heard from a friend of mine that 2.6 was closed to new features.
> What sayith the community on allowing additional experimental drivers
> (like the infiniband access layer) into 2.6 ? Can we still submit
> something or do we have to wait till 2.7 ?

If it's a subsystem that does not touch any of the existing kernel (with
the exception of adding it to the build and Kconfig), then it probably
will not be a problem to add.

But then again, that all depends on what the code looks like, and none
of us have seen that yet :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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