[parisc-linux] sym53c8xx_2 development

[Grant Grundler]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:19:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Hi.  I've got some changes for the sym53c8xx_2 driver I'm working on.
> Does anyone object to me working on them in the parisc 2.6 tree?

I don't think enough people are *using* 2.6 for anything serious
for that to be a problem. And I'm ok if you warn before committing
stuff which isn't at least lightly tested.

> We've done this kind of thing before (eg with the pcnet32 driver in 2.4)

and I've done it with several other drivers as well (eg tg3, acenic).

> but since every PCI-based parisc box uses sym53c8xx_2 for its scsi,
> I didn't feel it was appropriate to inflict potentially-buggy changes
> on everyone without a little bit of discussion.

cool - thanks!
grant