> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.981012201127.368B-100000@localhost>,
> Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> >
> >
> >On 11 Oct 1998, david parsons wrote:
> >
> >> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.95.981011182913.786A-100000@localhost>,
> >> Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >> >But being the low price at which we can buy way faster and reliable SCSI
> >> >adapters nowadays you may have problems to find a volunteer for
> >> >maintaining the driver for such an old horse that in real life had gone to
> >> >the abattoir years ago.
> >>
> >> Piffle. I have machines with 1542's in them that _work_ now; if your
> >> recommendation is that I buy replacement controllers, give me your
> >> credit card information and I'll make the order today.
> >
> >I maintain some Linux scsi driver in my free time and bought most of the
> >hardware I use under Linux. And now I am asking for offering scsi
> >controllers to a Linux user.
> >Why not to pay you for using Linux, after all?
> >
> >Dear comic boy,
> >
> >This list is for kernel development. You can subscribe and silently read
> >the articles. But, if you post to this list, then you are assumed to
> >desire to help linux development.
>
> Look on the credits list.
The credits list is ok but my credit card was not. ;-)
> >Your enthousiasm for 1542 controllers makes you an excellent candidate
> >for maintaining the corresponding driver, or at least trying to fix
> >it. I am quite sure that people who have docs on this adapter would be
> >glad to send you them and help you for this work.
>
> Why? The 1.2.13 driver seems to work just fine for me, and when I
> UDIze it I'll be able to carry it from kernel release to kernel
> release without fooling around with it.
You can do the same using simple #ifdef(s) and so avoid any overhead and
useless bloat.
Regards,
Gerard.
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