From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: Re: 1st of 2 patches for dm_emc.c and dm-multipath hardware handler interface Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:43:22 +0200 Message-ID: <45053DCA.7080207@suse.de> References: <6CCEAEDF4D06984A83F427424F47D6E4013D1397@CORPUSMX40A.corp.emc.com> <4501A68F.8050708@cs.wisc.edu> <4501AF96.9030502@cs.wisc.edu> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4501AF96.9030502@cs.wisc.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development Cc: agk@redhat.com, Edward Goggin List-Id: dm-devel.ids Mike Christie wrote: [ .. ] > We really need to change how dm-multipath development works IMHO. > Alasdair is just too overworked. It is not fair to him to have so much > work piled on top of him and not fair to the community to have problems > like this sit around for so long. >=20 [ .. ] > With Alasdair having to maintain every driver that dm handles and those > drivers increasing in complexity the work load is too large for one > person and this makes coordination with other subsystems impossible. > This is a large problem, when for something like dm-multipath it needs > help from the block layer, and low levels like scsi. >=20 > We really need a system like in the scsi layer where there are driver > maintainers and then one core maintainer of the subsystem. The core > maintainer has final (well ok community has final say I guess) say but > trusts the low level driver maintainers to some extent. The low level > driver maintainers still have to post patches for review to the > community and maintainer but the core maintainer does not have to do a > line by line review of the dm target module and learn all the lower > level details of the sub-subsytem/lld/dm target module/transport/spec > unless it affects dm core or it is a suspicious patch. >=20 Totally agree. Of course, Alasdairs vote's the one that counts ... Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstra=DFe 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 N=FCrnberg http://www.suse.de