Re: merging new drivers (was Re: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans)

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:59:18 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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