RE: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Request for discussion on when to mergedrivers

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 13:15:39 EST


> Experience has shown that for most SCSI drivers, the authors tend to be
> the people producing the hardware and without documentation, no-one else
> can fix up anything other than obvious coding errors, so we can't put it
> in the tree and hope someone else will fix it if they have a problem.

Is there an opportunity for a carrot here ... a driver submitted
*with documentation* gets a faster path into the tree?

-Tony
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