From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 14/14] sas-class: SCSI Host glue Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:08:05 -0600 Message-ID: <20050912160805.GC32395@parisc-linux.org> References: <1126308949.4799.54.camel@mulgrave> <20050910041218.29183.qmail@web51612.mail.yahoo.com> <20050911093847.GA5429@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050911093847.GA5429@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Luben Tuikov , James Bottomley , Luben Tuikov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:38:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:12:18PM -0700, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > I long for the days of the previous maintainer. Had it not been > > for him and Andi, we may have never had scsi commands from a slab, > > scsi_done queue, done_q softirq processing, scsi timer hook, etc. > > Of course back then Splentec wasn't your payrol company, but there > > was some common sense present in linux-scsi. > > Could you please stop this bullshit spreading now, thanks? I meant to reply to Luben's original, but I deleted it in disgust. As the person who converted SCSI from the old bottom-half completion processing first to a tasklet and then to a softirq, I'd like to refute at least part of this allegation. I didn't do it in order to improve SCSI particularly, satisfy Splentec (who are they?), or prove a point. I did it because I wanted to remove the old bottom-half mechanism and SCSI was one of the remaining users. That required me to learn a bit about the SCSI stack and I got sucked in. BTW, I believe at that time, James had alreeady taken over maintenance. I'm not actually sure who the previous maintainer was -- was it Eric Biederman? A colleague asked me to summarise the current dispute. I said that Luben's point was that nobody else understood SCSI. Everybody else's point was that Luben doesn't understand Linux kernel development. Luben, I think you need to shut up, accept advice, stop trying to do everything in your own driver, and stop trying to have private conversations. Just discuss things on linux-scsi dispassionately. There's no hidden agenda to get you or your company. But you are pissing people off, and very soon there *will* be because of your behaviour.