From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932426AbVI2TWW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:22:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932383AbVI2TWV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:22:21 -0400 Received: from dsl092-017-098.sfo4.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.17.98]:28309 "EHLO baywinds.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932377AbVI2TWE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:22:04 -0400 Message-ID: <433C3E97.2040701@baywinds.org> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:20:55 -0700 From: Bruce Ferrell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Stoffel CC: Luben Tuikov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List , Andre Hedrick , Patrick Mansfield , Luben Tuikov , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel References: <433B0374.4090100@adaptec.com> <20050928223542.GA12559@alpha.home.local> <433BFB1F.2020808@adaptec.com> <17212.10714.576797.424890@smtp.charter.net> In-Reply-To: <17212.10714.576797.424890@smtp.charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Well said John! For that matter get us a driver for the embedded 7902 (is that the one? I forget now) with host raid support. John Stoffel wrote: > Luben, > > I'd really prefer if you'd just stop on your tirade and just send in a > 10 line patch for the existing linux SCSI subsystem to fix something > you think is wrong. > > Code talks, bullshit walks. > > Sure, Linux SCSI might not be ideal, but how many people do you know > have SAS storage on their home PCs right now? Heck, I don't have SATA > or PIV on my home system! > > And as a customer of Adaptec hardware, I'm getting to the point of > seriously taking my money and going elsewhere for my storage needs. > If you are a general example of how Adaptec works with its customers, > then I want nothing to do with you or your products. > > Sure, I know you think Linux is stuck in the past, so help us move to > the future in small baby steps. It doesn't require big huge leaps > like you're proposing. I mean, have you actually tried to your old > legacy SCSI controllers in a system with your new hardware? How did > your testing go? > > Now I'm not a programmer, and I can't talk like one, but in my real > life job I'm a SysAdmin and knowing what I know about Adaptec's > interactions on this list will certainly color my perceptions of your > hardware and trying to make it work with my company. > > John > - > 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/ >