Re: New SYM53C8XX driver in 2.4.3-ac5 FIXES CD Writing!!!!

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 18:44:54 EST


>
> A core kernel developer NEEDS to get these features straightened out properly
> in a clean fashion. People WANT reiserfs integrated and working with LVM and

Note _clean_

> It does not look like that much work is needed to fix the stuff the base kernel
> and get better integration of these features. The rough edges on them make us
> look like a bunch of amatuers.

Lots of work needs doing. The entire quota code needs rewriting and that won't
happen until 2.5. The reiser+nfs stuff is probably also 2.5

> Alan, will you look into it as a project???

Not interested. Now is stabilizing time, not stuffing crap into the kernel tree
time. Vendors can (and will) ship stuff which is workable but not clean, and
they will hopefully over time fix up the stuff they care about and submit it.

Alan

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