Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751157AbVI1W5H (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:57:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751156AbVI1W5H (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:57:07 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-245.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.245]:62988 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751150AbVI1W5F (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:57:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:43:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Luben Tuikov cc: Patrick Mansfield , Luben Tuikov , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel In-Reply-To: <433B0374.4090100@adaptec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1652 Lines: 44 On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Luben Tuikov wrote: > On 09/28/05 15:45, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Luben, I have a vested interest in seeing SAS run via SCSI. So this means > > you have one ex-demi-god from the world of maintainers looking to pull you > > have towards the current path and open to ideas and willing to back a > > better design and push it. > > Ok, thanks Andre. Much appreciated. Luben, I have a vested interest in the improvement of the Linux SCSI Core and wider adoption and support for SATA II and SAS controllers with their associated domains and transport. > You are the first person to back me up _publicly_. Now if we > can find a person from "the community" to do that, and get all > the other people who've written me _privately_, we'd be in > good shape. Proving a better design with a migration path for integration is the key for success; however, I am not the person to be the political voice in the process. People will disagree in the process and the only counter to remove blockage/adoption is in code. James is king of the hill, and is reasonable to a point. James also follows a model of generalization v/s specific design. Argh, this is not going to be an easy one to explain or back away from now. Erm, inclusive API design is where I am wanting to go with this thought. Have you and company considered the approach of mapping to a library of sorts? Cheers, Andre - 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/