From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: libata maintainership change Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 19:41:11 -0700 Message-ID: <1367635271.5981.60.camel@dabdike> References: <5184179D.5050407@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:57357 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763390Ab3EDClO (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2013 22:41:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5184179D.5050407@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux IDE mailing list , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Tejun Heo On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 16:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Time for new open source pastures outside the kernel, for me. SATA is > slowly getting unexciting to the world. Which, really, just means the > brand new technology has reached a usable plateau. :) And maybe in a > few years, with directly attached PCI-NextGenSuperFastExpress storage, > ATA and SCSI will be distant memories. Hm, I keep getting asked when SCSI will die in various fora. To be honest, I expect, with the newer protocols and architecture models, that it may actually outlive me. > Until such time as block-based storage disappears from this earth, the > brave Sir Tejun, basically the libata co-author at this point, has > agreed to be a target for slings and arrows known as libata patches. > > All the best, Thanks for looking after libata thus far. All the best in whatever you choose next and best wishes to the new maintainer. James