Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030306AbVI3OIE (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:08:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030308AbVI3OID (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:08:03 -0400 Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:61132 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030306AbVI3OIC (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:08:02 -0400 Message-ID: <433D46B6.1090608@adaptec.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:07:50 -0400 From: Luben Tuikov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Luben Tuikov , Arjan van de Ven , Willy Tarreau , SCSI Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel References: <20050929232013.95117.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Sep 2005 14:08:00.0384 (UTC) FILETIME=[5D90F800:01C5C5C8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 26 On 09/29/05 20:35, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And that's my point. Specs are not only almost invariably badly written, > they also never actually match reality. Linus, the world has changed around you. Take a look at the SAS spec and then at a SAS chip implementation, for example. (We're talking abou T10 specs, right?) > And that's way _way_ too common. People who ignore reality are sadly not > at all unusual. You are saying I ignored reality? > Talk about working code that is _readable_ and _works_. http://linux.adaptec.com/sas/ Luben - 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/