any chance for areca raid driver patch in FC4?

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:57:38PM -0400, Tim Taranov wrote:
 > I would have excluded device drivers from this category or goal,
 > _especially_ if they are shown to work ok under mainline kernel
 > releases as well as are part of the upcoming/future kernel releases.

The problem is a lot of drivers that live outside the kernel.org tree
are _awful_. Its not until they get submitted for inclusion upstream
that they go through peer-review and get various issues worked out.

The question to keep asking is "If its not upstream, there's a reason.
If that reason is code-quality, why is it good enough for Fedora?"

Another issue is the burden it adds to the distro kernel maintainer
(ie, me right now).  There are two 'add-on' drivers in the Fedora
kernel tree right now (ipw2100 and ipw2200), and it's a complete
pain for me to have to run off and download extra drivers, bend
them to fit the fedora kernel, fix up any additional problems
that get reported etc. I really regret my decision of merging them,
though I know there are countless users of those drivers who are
glad that I merged them.

New code, be it drivers/filesystems whatever has to go upstream,
or at the least show signs of 'going upstream soon'.

		Dave