From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262424AbTEIJy3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 05:54:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262426AbTEIJy3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 05:54:29 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:42762 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262424AbTEIJy2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 05:54:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:06:48 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Undo aic7xxx changes Message-Id: <20030509120648.1e0af0c8.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <2804790000.1052441142@aslan.scsiguy.com> References: <2804790000.1052441142@aslan.scsiguy.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 08 May 2003 18:45:42 -0600 "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > Hi, > > [...] > > Justin, unfortunately I can't even THINK about updating aic7xxx to your > > new driver at the current release stage. I will do so in the 2.4.22. > > [...] > Again, if you have concerns about the aic7xxx or aic79xx drivers, my > mail box is always open. Waiting to contact me until the last minute > where I can only sit on the sidelines and watch another train wreck is > not the best way to ensure that the drivers function correctly in 2.4.X. > > What this basically boils down to is trust. If you don't trust me, > tell me how I can build that trust. Without it, I can only continue > to tell most people that contact me with bug reports, "It's already > fixed in the official driver. You can pull the latest from ..." Justin, just to complete the picture: as I wrote some days ago concerning your hint to "use the latest from ..." your latest driver does not complete booting on (at least) my system but freezes - which I wrote to LKML. I have not yet heard anything about this issue. You cannot expect to include a newer driver which performs obviously worse in some cases. "Worse" here means "fails" and not "performs bad". Marcelos' decision on the topic looks pretty reasonable to me... Regards, Stephan