Re: 2.6: unused code under drivers/message/fusion/

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:11:51AM +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
>
> > Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> >
> > > We need to hold off on this change. Yes, there are 
> > > customers of LSI Logic using mptstm.c, as
> > > part of the target-mode drivers.  
> > >
> > > The proposed generic target mode drivers proposal is yet part
> > > of the kernel.  
> > > http://scst.sourceforge.net/
> > > We are looking into supporting this once its available.
> >
> > Well, SCST is already available, stable and useful. People use it 
> > without considerable problems, except with inconvenient LUNs management, 
> > which we are going to fix in the next version. I don't expect it will be 
> > considering for the kernel inclusion at least until 2.7. So, you can 
> > start supporting it right now :-).
>
>
> With the current kernel development model, there is no 2.7 planned for 
> the next years.
>
> Linus and Andrew believe 6 was an odd number, so you could submit your 
> code now. [1]

OK, I'll prepare the next version as the kernel patch.

Thanks,
Vlad

> > Vlad
>
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
> [1] this is a slightly abbreviated version of the development model
>     Linus announced

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