From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161097AbWBTSL0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:11:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161101AbWBTSL0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:11:26 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:150 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161100AbWBTSLY (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:11:24 -0500 Subject: Re: Areca RAID driver remaining items? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Dax Kelson Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, billion.wu@areca.com.tw, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org, erich@areca.com.tw, oliver@neukum.org In-Reply-To: <1140458552.3495.26.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> References: <1140458552.3495.26.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:11:19 +0100 Message-Id: <1140459079.2979.70.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > "There's lots of architectural problems. It's doing it's own queueing, > it's stuffing kernel structures into memory on the hardware and so on. > Basically someone knowledgeable about the hardware needs to start from > scratch on it." > > What are the show stoppers that prevents a merge into the Linus tree? own queueing for sure is a show stopper; stuffing kernel structures into the hw is also very much evil