Well, okay. But you have to understand my skepticism... I've communicated with literally dozens of people who were very eager and willing to work on usb-storage, and they (at most) contributed one patch and then disappeared.
Let's merge the patch and see where it takes us.
Matt
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:51:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I don't quite understand your reasoning for not completing
> > the code consolidation.
>
> Not so impatient.
>
> The perfect development model is small steps, frequent updates.
> If there is a bug in 2.5.N+1 and things work in 2.5.N and the
> change between them is a simple and obvious one, then it is very
> easy to find the typo and correct it.
> With large patches this continuity is lost.
>
> My patch removed 5% of the code in usb-storage.
> That suffices for a first step.
>
> > I'd also like to know that he _really_ intends to take the next few
> > steps.
>
> I outlined a few steps to come. Showed you the code for some.
> Every step is an improvement. Why don't I do more?
> Well, you are welcome to work yourself on the things you
> consider most urgent.
>
> > Other than that, the patch looks fine. But I'd really hate to introduce a
> > couple of new files only to have them removed later... so we should think
> > about where this is all going to end up _ahead_of_time_.
>
> Ah, this is going to end up in a beautiful USB subsystem,
> where all devices I possess really work, and nothing crashes
> if one inserts and removes a few devices a few times.
>
> Andries
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