From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] fusion: streamline ->queuecommand Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:30:02 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041006143002.GA27262@lst.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:47522 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269270AbUJFOaO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:30:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Gibbons, Terry" Cc: "'arjanv@redhat.com'" , 'James Bottomley' , "Moore, Eric Dean" , "Stephens, Larry" , "Shirron, Stephen" , Matthew Wilcox , SCSI Mailing List On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:23:23AM -0600, Gibbons, Terry wrote: > I stand corrected. Our customers will force driver patches through Red Hat > and SuSE. They buy these products and keep Linux distributors in business. > Do you expect our customers to take huge hits to their bottom line because > DV will no longer execute properly on LSI devices? You're totally missing the point. No one wants to remove DV functionality. We want a single implementation of the DV mechanism in the SPI transport class instead of various buggy copies in individual drivers. No may I kindly suggest that you stop trolling on this list and let your staff handle this issue. I'm pretty sure we can work out a solution that suits everyone with Eric if we get the nonsensical managment issues out of the loop.