Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932459AbZJHOzM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:55:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932411AbZJHOzL (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:55:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35155 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932409AbZJHOzK (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:55:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:54:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: James Bottomley cc: Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1254844007.4383.85.camel@mulgrave.site> <1254862442.4383.183.camel@mulgrave.site> <1255012399.4187.24.camel@mulgrave.site> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 33 On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm taking it (and the parisc one I was also unhappy with) Actually, looking at it again, I'm wavering. That BFA driver isn't a "driver". It's a huge subsystem of it's own. It's almost 50 _thousand_ lines of code for just a single "driver", and for rare hardware at that. Quite frankly, the "bang per line" is almost zero. What the ^&@* is wrong with "enterprise SCSI" people? The amount of crazy is overwhelming. So I've pulled it, but I'm still considering just unpulling it. That driver is _not_ "just a driver". It's something more. Something dank and smelly, that has grown in dark and forbidding places. The whole crazy "high end SCSI" industry needs a f*cking exorcism. Even if I don't unpull, I don't _ever_ want to see a driver like this outside the merge window. And dammit, James, you should have realized that. Linus -- 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/