Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932292AbVI2Rwe (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:52:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932288AbVI2Rwd (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:52:33 -0400 Received: from mxsf04.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.204]:20650 "EHLO mxsf04.cluster1.charter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932287AbVI2Rwc (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:52:32 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.97,158,1125892800"; d="scan'208"; a="1629485577:sNHT16203680" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17212.10714.576797.424890@smtp.charter.net> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:52:26 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: Luben Tuikov Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List , Andre Hedrick , Patrick Mansfield , Luben Tuikov , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel In-Reply-To: <433BFB1F.2020808@adaptec.com> References: <433B0374.4090100@adaptec.com> <20050928223542.GA12559@alpha.home.local> <433BFB1F.2020808@adaptec.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1431 Lines: 35 Luben, I'd really prefer if you'd just stop on your tirade and just send in a 10 line patch for the existing linux SCSI subsystem to fix something you think is wrong. Code talks, bullshit walks. Sure, Linux SCSI might not be ideal, but how many people do you know have SAS storage on their home PCs right now? Heck, I don't have SATA or PIV on my home system! And as a customer of Adaptec hardware, I'm getting to the point of seriously taking my money and going elsewhere for my storage needs. If you are a general example of how Adaptec works with its customers, then I want nothing to do with you or your products. Sure, I know you think Linux is stuck in the past, so help us move to the future in small baby steps. It doesn't require big huge leaps like you're proposing. I mean, have you actually tried to your old legacy SCSI controllers in a system with your new hardware? How did your testing go? Now I'm not a programmer, and I can't talk like one, but in my real life job I'm a SysAdmin and knowing what I know about Adaptec's interactions on this list will certainly color my perceptions of your hardware and trying to make it work with my company. John - 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/