Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

Andrew Morton
2008-02-08T03:24:46Z

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:43 -0600 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix
> > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have
> > > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based
> > > but don't use the scsi_esp core (that's mostly m68k and alpha). Plus
> > > the usual bunch of driver updates and the addition of a new enclosure
> > > services driver and the corresponding ULD.
> >
> > Sob. Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"? It has been
> > sent three times, the first time was Dec 5 last year and it has thus far
> > received the lead balloon treatment. Despite my explicit request for
> > consideration last time I sent it
> >
> > If there is no movement here then I have to carry the moderately intrusive
> > mm-remove-nopage.patch for another N months and we need to watch out for
> > new ->nopage implementations popping up etc.
>
> I agree ... I've pinged Doug privately, this is publicly.
> Unfortunately, it is an intrusive change and needs testing .. I just
> don't have the tools that do this for SG.
>

I keep on forgetting that sg==dougg.

<looks in MAINTAINERS. Shifts blame.>

In fact scsi is the area in which I have the most who-maintains-what
trouble. I just don't believe what MAINTAINERS says about scsi drivers and
I tend to resort to git-whatchanged to find out who's really doing stuff.
The number of people@lsil.com makes my head spin and I tend to cc as many
as I can get my hands on.

IOW: some care and attention to the ./MAINTAINERS file would really help
here.