Message-ID: <1367635271.5981.60.camel@dabdike>
Subject: Re: libata maintainership change
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 19:41:11 -0700
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On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 16:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Time for new open source pastures outside the kernel, for me.  SATA is 
> slowly getting unexciting to the world.  Which, really, just means the 
> brand new technology has reached a usable plateau.  :)  And maybe in a 
> few years, with directly attached PCI-NextGenSuperFastExpress storage, 
> ATA and SCSI will be distant memories.

Hm, I keep getting asked when SCSI will die in various fora.  To be
honest, I expect, with the newer protocols and architecture models, that
it may actually outlive me.

> Until such time as block-based storage disappears from this earth, the 
> brave Sir Tejun, basically the libata co-author at this point, has 
> agreed to be a target for slings and arrows known as libata patches.
> 
> All the best,

Thanks for looking after libata thus far.  All the best in whatever you
choose next and best wishes to the new maintainer.

James


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