Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:44:45 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] scsi fixes for 2.6.25-rc2 |
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original > > author of mvsas, but... > > > > Should we be adding new drivers during -rc? > > I'm personally of the opinion that a new driver that doesn't add anything > but itself (ie no infrastructure changes etc) is fine. I'd rather have a > new, rough driver that might work, than no driver at all, and it's not > like it can cause a regression if you don't enable it. >
Yes, I too think that adding new standalone code in late -rc is OK.
Especially drivers, because a new driver is a bugfix for people who own that hardware!
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