>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb  9 16:27:57 1999

>Joerg Schilling wrote:

>> >It sounds like it's better than the original sg.   Why hasn't it been
>> >incoorporated into mainstream kernel?
>> 
>> It seems that nobody (Linus included) is interested in SCSI on Linux.
>> 
>> Heiko and I have made a new version more then 9 moths ago an nobody
>> was willing to incorporate this change.....

>FWIW, I do believe I have that version safely tucked away on my system waiting
>for some other things to happen.  Currently, I'm working on some rather
>sweeping changes to some SCSI code, but it's all slated for 2.3 at best.  When
>I get around to releasing something, I intend to include updated sg.c code. 
>Of course, you're free to try and get the new sg.c code included yourself, but
>that would be difficult to do this late in the game for 2.2, so you would
>probably need to wait for 2.3 just like I am.

That's why we tried to include it in 2.1.xxx 6 months ago. Unfortunately, the only
pointer we had who was really willing to help was Eric Youngdale and
he had no time....


J�rg

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