From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:54:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4359395B.9030402@pobox.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> <43593884.7000800@adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:59830 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965088AbVJUSy1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:54:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <43593884.7000800@adaptec.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Luben Tuikov Cc: andrew.patterson@hp.com, Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds Luben Tuikov wrote: > On 10/21/05 14:18, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>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. I'm trying to tell it like it is, in the hopes that you will eventually learn the process, and be a good upstream maintainer we can all work with. Jeff