Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751127AbVJXQNh (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:13:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751134AbVJXQNh (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:13:37 -0400 Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:40924 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751127AbVJXQNg (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:13:36 -0400 Message-ID: <435D0828.4020307@adaptec.com> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:13:28 -0400 From: Luben Tuikov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Regala CC: Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , Sergey Panov , Stefan Richter , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Jeff Garzik , andrew.patterson@hp.com, Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) References: <4359440E.2050702@pobox.com> <43595275.1000308@adaptec.com> <435959BE.5040101@pobox.com> <43595CA6.9010802@adaptec.com> <43596070.3090902@pobox.com> <43596859.3020801@adaptec.com> <43596F16.7000606@pobox.com> <435A1793.1050805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20051022105815.GB3027@infradead.org> <1129994910.6286.21.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <20051022171943.GA7546@infradead.org> <435CE6CA.4070704@adaptec.com> <1130168495.12873.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> <435CFA5A.2030104@adaptec.com> <87vezm7vox.fsf@barad-dur.minas-morgul.org> In-Reply-To: <87vezm7vox.fsf@barad-dur.minas-morgul.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Oct 2005 16:13:33.0548 (UTC) FILETIME=[E19892C0:01C5D8B5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 23 On 10/24/05 11:59, Regala wrote: > but refactoring can be done in incremental pieces, can't be ? > rewriting it from scratch is, in this very case, really for the sake > of self-pride and brain-masturbation. > Bravo > > This is not a really convincing example... > > -- > Mathieu Segaud They, the factory, wanted it rewritten from scratch, so that they can maintain and support it themselves. Luben -- http://linux.adaptec.com/sas/ http://www.adaptec.com/sas/ - 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/