Re: [PATCH]: PCI Error Recovery: Symbios SCSI device driver

From: Linas Vepstas
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 18:53:54 EST


On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:54:06PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:28:38AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Well you've sent it a couple of times, and I've sent it in five more times
> > over the past year. Once we were told "awaiting maintainer ack".
> >
> > This situation is fairly stupid. How about we make you the maintainer?
>
> Last time I looked at it, I still wasn't comfortable with it. I'm going
> to look at it again.

Please do. Its burning the proverbial hole in my pocket; I'd really
like to get this off my list of things I worry about.

> I'm fairly sure Linas doesn't want to be the sym2 maintainer. It's
> still an ugly pile of junk that needs cleaning up.

Heh. I have no difficulty living with ugly code: its actually a
great excuse to fix things instead of doing "real work" :-)

Rather, the menagerie of hardware I have access to is constantly
changing; I don't have a symbios card just right now, and it might
take a few days to even find someone who did. Which is an incredibly
unpleasent, unrewarding activity.

--linas

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