Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267945AbUJGUih (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:38:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268141AbUJGUiH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:38:07 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:55997 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267945AbUJGUg3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 16:36:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4165A85D.7080704@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:34:37 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Lord , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 References: <4161A06D.8010601@rtr.ca> <416547B6.5080505@rtr.ca> <20041007150709.B12688@infradead.org> <4165624C.5060405@rtr.ca> <416565DB.4050006@pobox.com> <4165A45D.2090200@rtr.ca> <4165A766.1040104@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <4165A766.1040104@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1337 Lines: 34 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Overall, I don't see why it is so damned difficult to delete the hooks > then add them back when they _are_ needed. I would certainly support > you in that effort. Okay, that can work. Except that the hooks ARE needed NOW. Right NOW, there is a programmer working on the RAID management interface, and he needs those hooks (or something similar) to compile and test his code against the driver. Remember, the vendor wants to decouple the RAID management from the in-tree kernel code. They fully want to open-source (GPL) all of it, but in two pieces: (1) core driver to boot/run the system, and (2) loadable component to provide advanced RAID management. It is anticipated that development of (2) will take some time and have many revisions, and they really want to decouple it's release from that of the stock kernel. Thus, the latest version of that code will be provided via website and installation CD to customers who actually buy/use the product. I wonder if there's a better way to do this? -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy") - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/