Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:29:29 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20050928.162929.50617923.davem@davemloft.net>
To: jgarzik@pobox.com
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       patmans@us.ibm.com, ltuikov@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into
 the kernel
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:22:53 -0400

> Both Luben and his predecessor, Justin Gibbs, were severely dissatisfied 
> with the SCSI core.  Often they have raised valid issues that need 
> addressing, but their choice has been to work around or ignore existing 
> code (and maintainers), rather than work with it, and fix it.

I'm in violent agreement here.

Justin was just as anti-social of an engineer as one could get.  And,
when you put an ex-FreeBSD guy onto Linux driver maintainence, what in
the world could anyone expect. :-)

For example, instead of accepting that the symbol "current" is a
reserved symbol when compiling under the Linux kernel, he decided that
"sticking a square peg into a round hole" was a better way to deal
with this, and thus he put an "#undef current" into the adaptec driver
instead of simply renaming a structure member from "current" to
something else.

I don't know how else to define "control freak".
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