RE: [PATCH 5/6] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission (2ndtry)

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 23:30 -0700, Jing Huang wrote:
> It is encouraging to know that we can discuss and add new feature into
> existing fc transport. I guess this is opensource all about. I didn't
> have linux opensource experience before, so I was not quite sure how
> easy to request new features in fc transport such as mechanism to create
> multiple subdirectories for different level of statistics info in
> addition to the snia fc statitistics we already have, and other features
> such as CT/SCSI passthru and asynchronous event notification etc.

Well, this is open source ... you don't get to request new features; you
get to implement them, so if you need something that SCSI or the FC
transport doesn't provide, you just add it (rather than coding either a
fix or an enhancement for your driver alone).

However, you're quite lucky.  So far, as James Smart said, I haven't
seen you ask for any features that we don't either provide or are in
process of agreeing the implementation of.

James