Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Request for discussion on when to merge drivers | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:01 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:15 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Experience has shown that for most SCSI drivers, the authors tend to be > > the people producing the hardware and without documentation, no-one else > > can fix up anything other than obvious coding errors, so we can't put it > > in the tree and hope someone else will fix it if they have a problem. > > Is there an opportunity for a carrot here ... a driver submitted > *with documentation* gets a faster path into the tree?
You mean with actual how to program it information? er dunno ... never seen one of those ...
But I suppose, theoretically, since anyone could access the documentation to maintain it, it would be much more likely to be fixed up in tree, yes.
James
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