The directory contains the latest snapshots of the so called "merged patch" for the SCSI subsystem. It is a patchfile that is planned to go into the early 1.3 kernels. It updates most files in the drivers/scsi directory and quite a number of others in the sourcetree. It fixes a number of problems in the SCSI code, adds new features like native multichannel and wide SCSI support, the /proc/scsi directory etc. It also reindents the midlevel and most of the highlevel code so that it gets a little more readable again. Authors of the code are: Eric Youngdale eric@aib.com Drew Eckhardt drew@boulder.openware.com Michael Neuffer neuffer@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de and others. The intention of this "pre"release is, that other programmers can prepare themselves for the upcoming changes, add support for the new features in their drivers and/or simply test the new code. Have fun with it. Mike