Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Feb 23 2008 - 15:31:23 EST




On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original
> author of mvsas, but...
>
> Should we be adding new drivers during -rc?

I'm personally of the opinion that a new driver that doesn't add anything
but itself (ie no infrastructure changes etc) is fine. I'd rather have a
new, rough driver that might work, than no driver at all, and it's not
like it can cause a regression if you don't enable it.

Linus
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