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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: AMD 53c974 SCSI driver in 2.6
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:59:10AM +0100, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:47:42AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Any reason why we'd keep both drivers? Given that there's not much ressources
> > for fixing drivers for older hardware I'd rather see us not keeping multiple
> > drivers for the same hardware.
>
> As long as there are people willing to do the work, there's no reason to
> drop any of them.

Well, yes. If we had two properly maintained drivers there would be
no reason to drop one. But we currently have two broken drivers, one of
them just resurrected to compiling and mostly working on UP state..

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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - Freelance Hacker
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