From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luben Tuikov Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: <43593884.7000800@adaptec.com> References: <91888D455306F94EBD4D168954A9457C048F0E34@nacos172.co.lsil.com> <20051020160155.GA14296@lst.de> <4357CB03.4020400@adaptec.com> <20051020170330.GA16458@lst.de> <4357F7DE.7050004@adaptec.com> <1129852879.30258.137.camel@bluto.andrew> <43583A53.2090904@pobox.com> <435929FD.4070304@adaptec.com> <43593100.5040708@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:29069 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965081AbVJUSuz (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:50:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <43593100.5040708@pobox.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: andrew.patterson@hp.com, Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds On 10/21/05 14:18, Jeff Garzik wrote: > This illustrates you fundamentally don't understand a lot of Linux, and > SCSI too. > > Several non-blkdev device classes (Christoph listed them) use block > layer request_queue for command transit, as does SG_IO and /dev/sg. When people start getting personal you know that they're losing it. > We have plenty of specs. It's called source code. > > You don't understand the Linux development process (think its more > political than technical) and you don't understand even what a block > driver is, and you wonder why you have difficulty getting code into the > kernel? Again, when people start getting personal, you know that they are losing it. Thank you for spreading FUD -- I'm sure you've impressed your managament, how great of a Linux programmer you are and how I don't know anything. I'd suggest you keep pushing the politics _behind_ the scences. Have a good day, Luben -- http://linux.adaptec.com/sas/ http://www.adaptec.com/sas/