Re: New SYM53C8XX driver in 2.4.3-ac5 FIXES CD Writing!!!!

[Matthew Grant]

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> > 
> > A core kernel developer  NEEDS to get these features straightened out properly 
> > in a clean fashion.  People WANT reiserfs integrated and working with LVM and 
> 
> Note _clean_

I agree completely.

> 
> > It does not look like that much work is needed to fix the stuff the base kernel
> > and get better integration of these features.  The rough edges on them make us 
> > look like a bunch of amatuers.
> 
> Lots of work needs doing. The entire quota code needs rewriting and that won't
> happen until 2.5. The reiser+nfs stuff is probably also 2.5

Sounds like we need a 2.6 fairly soon after a 2.5 rather than going on a 
complete development voyage around the world every 18 months...

Linus,

Can't we have a controlled  development tree branch for 2-3 months just to get 
the ReiserFS/LVM/quota/knfsd integration done _cleanly_ (this has significant 
short-term  benefits NOW), with the brakes on all other changes, and another 
development tree where everyone goes wild with NUMA/Networking et al., where 
the changes from the other get merged???

> 
> > Alan, will you look into it as a project???
> 
> Not interested. Now is stabilizing time, not stuffing crap into the kernel tree
> time. Vendors can (and will) ship stuff which is workable but not clean, and
> they will hopefully over time fix up the stuff they care about and submit it.

Any takers to look at re-bending the current LVM fixes, + the reiserFS 
snapshot stuff???.  From what I can gather people will ALWAYS be applying the 
pathes for this to the stock kernel source.

> 
> Alan
> 

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