From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [RFC] libata new EH document Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:09:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4317FAB3.7050304@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <20050901043850.15186.qmail@web51611.mail.yahoo.com> <43169520.6040008@gmail.com> <20050901055421.GA23496@havoc.gtf.org> <1125581097.4834.5.camel@mulgrave> <4317755C.5080700@adaptec.com> <431776A0.2030107@pobox.com> <43177C0B.9040500@adaptec.com> <43178060.9030601@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:41917 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030521AbVIBHLK (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 03:11:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <43178060.9030601@pobox.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Luben Tuikov , James Bottomley , Tejun Heo , ltuikov@yahoo.com, Albert Lee , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, SCSI Mailing List , Doug Maxey Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux is NOT about big designs. Linus says "do what you must, and no > more." The scsi subsystem is used in so many divergent areas, its set of requirements is "big". Therefore its design has to be "big". > The future will bring other "baby steps" that evolve us towards a more > modular design where each LLD may register themselves with a storage > system, associate themselves with [...] ...and hopefully a future where a LLD can be written and maintained without profound knowledge of many implementation details of scsi mid- and high-level. (Sorry for digressing further from the thread's subject, although it still seems related.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=-= =--= ---=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/