From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:24:58 -0800 Message-ID: <20080207192458.77ea0778.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1202432206.3171.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080207184606.03b28a9c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1202440603.3171.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49986 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756811AbYBHDYq (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:24:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1202440603.3171.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Nick Piggin , dougg@torque.net On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:43 -0600 James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley 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. 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.