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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:11:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <433C204C.7010602@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <433C1CA1.3080007@adaptec.com>

Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 09/29/05 11:20, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>>Arjan, I'll be your best friend here:
>>>Never say this in public or in an intervew.
>>
>>
>>It's hard-earned experience.  We constantly have to teach hardware 
>>vendors how to write good drivers.
> 
> 
> I'm sure you have.  Hardware vendors are lost without
> Jeff, James Bottomley and Christoph.
> 
> You see, it is because of your _enormous_ ego as shown
> above, that the code is being blocked.

No, I was referring to things such as, e.g.
	http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/olspaper.pdf
	http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/OLS.pdf

It has nothing to do with ego, just hard-won experience.

There are bunches of hardware vendors who have their patches merged 
immediately after posting.  They get it.  They have internalized the 
reasons why Linux drivers look the way they do.


>>As a tangent, I already have a design for a Linux filesystem that makes 
>>use of SCSI object-based storage (to James's horror, no doubt :)).  It's 
>>a fun thing to ponder.
> 
> 
> Ok, so the way I see it you want to show who has got
> the bigger balls?
> 
> Jeff, I have *worked* on a Linux OBD-based filesystem.
> 
> Are you going to stop this self-gratifying stuff?

Oh good grief.  It was an example, silly.  Trying to lighten the mood, even.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-29 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 169+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-26 19:38 I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel Luben Tuikov
2005-09-27 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-27 22:51   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-27 23:14     ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-28 11:37       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 12:32         ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-09-28 14:50           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-30  1:56             ` Junio C Hamano
2005-09-28 16:27         ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-09-28 16:34           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 19:45           ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-28 20:56             ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 22:35               ` Willy Tarreau
2005-09-28 23:22                 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-28 23:29                   ` David S. Miller
2005-09-29  5:30                     ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-29  7:24                       ` David S. Miller
2005-09-30  7:36                         ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-30 18:34                           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 18:50                             ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-30 19:08                               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 21:31                                 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-30 22:10                                   ` Greg Freemyer
2005-09-30 22:19                                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 23:54                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-01  4:58                                       ` Willy Tarreau
2005-10-03 15:08                                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 14:04                                       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 22:14                                   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-01  0:33                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03 14:18                                       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 14:26                                         ` I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx intothe kernel David Lang
2005-10-03 15:19                                           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 15:30                                             ` I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx intothekernel David Lang
2005-10-03 16:01                                         ` I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel Jeff Garzik
2005-09-30 20:45                             ` James Bottomley
2005-09-30 22:05                               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-01  0:38                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03 15:27                                   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 16:28                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-30 22:04                             ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-30 22:32                               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 23:57                             ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03 14:15                               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 15:57                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03 16:23                                   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 16:48                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03 19:03                                       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 19:32                                         ` Mike Christie
2005-10-03 20:15                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03 19:10                                 ` Mike Christie
2005-09-30 18:51                           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 14:33                 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 14:48                   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29 15:50                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 16:54                       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29 18:25                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 15:15                   ` grundig
2005-09-29 15:17                   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-09-29 16:33                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 16:56                       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29 16:58                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 17:03                           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29 18:09                           ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-09-29 17:13                       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-09-29 18:39                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 22:43                           ` Joel Becker
2005-09-29 17:52                   ` John Stoffel
2005-09-29 19:20                     ` Bruce Ferrell
2005-09-28 22:43               ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-29 15:04                 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 15:08                   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29 16:22                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 19:09                   ` Stefan Richter
2005-09-29 22:06                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 16:30         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-28 16:35           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28  2:02     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-28 20:36       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 21:00         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-28 22:10           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 23:04             ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29  4:04               ` Willy Tarreau
2005-09-29  7:44                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-29 15:09                   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 15:20                     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29 16:56                       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 17:11                         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-09-30 18:16                     ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-09-29 17:15                   ` Stefan Richter
2005-09-29 17:29                     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29 19:32                   ` Willy Tarreau
2005-09-29 19:57                   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-29 22:49                     ` jerome lacoste
2005-09-29 23:20                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 23:57                       ` Prasenjit Sarkar
2005-09-30  6:35                         ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-30  0:35                       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-30  1:25                         ` Hua Zhong
2005-09-30  2:42                         ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-09-30 19:12                           ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-09-30 19:38                             ` Bob Copeland
2005-09-30  7:29                         ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-09-30 14:23                           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 16:26                           ` Andrew Patterson
2005-09-30 16:47                             ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 14:07                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30  5:31                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-30  6:52                     ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-29 19:59               ` Stefan Richter
2005-09-29 19:37       ` Stefan Richter
2005-09-29 19:22   ` Stefan Richter
2005-09-27 13:07 Luben Tuikov
2005-09-27 13:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-27 15:01   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-27 15:53     ` James Bottomley
2005-09-27 19:35       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-27 20:34         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-27 21:44           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-27 22:01             ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-27 23:03               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-27 23:32                 ` Andrew Patterson
2005-09-28  2:07                 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-28  0:28 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-09-28  1:34 ` Andre Hedrick
2005-09-28 11:42 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 15:15 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-09-28 16:59 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-28 22:17 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-09-29 12:46 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-29 15:45 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-09-30  1:28 Martin Fouts
2005-09-30 17:07 Salyzyn, Mark
2005-09-30 17:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-01 23:55   ` Alan Cox
2005-10-03 16:17     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-04  6:51       ` Andre Hedrick
2005-10-04 15:01         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 18:39 ` Andrew Patterson
2005-09-30 19:21   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 20:14     ` Andrew Patterson
2005-09-30 20:22       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-09-30 21:44         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-01 17:46         ` Greg KH
2005-09-30 20:32       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 21:15         ` Andrew Patterson
2005-09-30 21:40           ` Joel Becker
2005-09-30 22:01           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-09-30 23:42             ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-10-03 13:54               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 16:29                 ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-10-03 16:35                   ` Andrew Patterson
2005-10-03 16:39                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-03 19:16                       ` Marcin Dalecki
2005-10-03 21:26                       ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2005-10-03 22:04                         ` Ryan Anderson
2005-10-03 22:56                           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-03 23:22                             ` Al Viro
2005-10-04 13:55                             ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2005-10-04 15:09                               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-04 14:38                             ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-04 14:54                               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-04 15:19                                 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-04 15:26                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-04 15:40                                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-04 15:46                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-10-04  6:30                           ` Andre Hedrick
2005-10-01  0:02     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-01  0:01   ` Jeff Garzik

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