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

2008-02-26 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:28:35 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-23 12:31]: > > > 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

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

2008-02-26 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:39:17 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-23 12:31]: > > 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

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

2008-02-26 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:39:17 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-23 12:31]: 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

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

2008-02-26 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:28:35 +0100 Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-23 12:31]: 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

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

2008-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-23 12:31]: > 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

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

2008-02-25 Thread Byron Bradley
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-23 12:31]: > > > 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

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

2008-02-25 Thread Byron Bradley
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-23 12:31]: 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

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

2008-02-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-23 12:31]: 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

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

2008-02-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 18:31 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Olof Johansson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > > >> Jeff Garzik (1): > >> mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver > > [...] > >> drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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?

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Olof Johansson wrote: Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: Jeff Garzik (1): mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver [...] drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981 I just noticed that the file permissions on that

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

2008-02-23 Thread Olof Johansson
Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > Jeff Garzik (1): > mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver [...] > drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981 > I just noticed that the file permissions on that file are 755 in

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

2008-02-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:31 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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

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

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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

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

2008-02-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: On the net driver side of things, I have a few new net drivers that I have queued for 2.6.26, because they did not make the merge window. This is inconsistent with your apparently policy. s/apparently/apparent/ Sometimes my fingers don't type the words that come out of my

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
James Bottomley wrote: This is the latest crop of bug fixes plus one new driver: mvsas. We're [...] Jeff Garzik (1): mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver [...] Ke Wei (1): mvsas: convert from rough draft to working driver I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot

[GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-23 Thread James Bottomley
This is the latest crop of bug fixes plus one new driver: mvsas. We're still in the throes of trying to fix aic94xx/libsas error handling, so the fix here isn't complete (but it is much better than before). The patch is available here:

[GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-23 Thread James Bottomley
This is the latest crop of bug fixes plus one new driver: mvsas. We're still in the throes of trying to fix aic94xx/libsas error handling, so the fix here isn't complete (but it is much better than before). The patch is available here:

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
James Bottomley wrote: This is the latest crop of bug fixes plus one new driver: mvsas. We're [...] Jeff Garzik (1): mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver [...] Ke Wei (1): mvsas: convert from rough draft to working driver I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: On the net driver side of things, I have a few new net drivers that I have queued for 2.6.26, because they did not make the merge window. This is inconsistent with your apparently policy. s/apparently/apparent/ Sometimes my fingers don't type the words that come out of my

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

2008-02-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
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

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

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2008-02-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:31 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: 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

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

2008-02-23 Thread Olof Johansson
Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: Jeff Garzik (1): mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver [...] drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981 I just noticed that the file permissions on that file are 755 in

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Olof Johansson wrote: Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: Jeff Garzik (1): mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver [...] drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981 I just noticed that the file permissions on that

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

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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?

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

2008-02-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 18:31 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Olof Johansson wrote: Hi, On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: Jeff Garzik (1): mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver [...] drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981