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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:10:20PM +0100, Ivan Novick wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Is there a hit-list of old drivers that need work, in case someone is
> interested in helping?

Not a complete list, but a good way for finding 50 drivers that need 
work:
  grep scsi_module.c drivers/scsi/*

> Ivan

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Adrian

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