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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sergey Panov <sipan@sipan.org>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	andrew.patterson@hp.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Moore, Eric Dean" <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>,
	jejb@steeleye.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally	attached PHYs)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:14:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435CFA5A.2030104@adaptec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130168495.12873.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On 10/24/05 11:41, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2005-10-24 at 09:51 -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> 
>>controls and how.  Understanding how the factory workers use it and what
>>they expect.  Understanding the code (which may not be as easy).  Then it
>>is rewritten so that it can be easily supported and maintained.
> 
> 
> Very very rarely, because it means down time and supporting two systems
> at once. Take a look at the australian customs fiasco or the british
> passport office disaster to see why (actually almost any large
> government IT project where politics dictated 'write new stuff so I can
> announce it in parliament').
> 
> The smart factory update would occur piece by piece. Starting with the
> most pressing problems (ie fastest ROI) and working to a plan that ends
> up with the system modular and clean.
> 
> You don't turn a steel plant off for a software upgrade.

There was 0 (zero) effective downtime to the factory.

	Luben
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-24 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-20 15:25 [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs Moore, Eric Dean
2005-10-20 15:55 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-20 16:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-20 16:51   ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-20 17:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-20 17:22       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-20 20:10         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21  8:16           ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-20 20:02       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21  0:01         ` Andrew Patterson
2005-10-21  0:46           ` ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21  5:09             ` Mike Christie
2005-10-21  5:41             ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-10-21  6:19               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 18:37                 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 17:48             ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 18:04               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-21 18:12                 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 18:20                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-10-22  2:30                     ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-10-22  2:54                       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-22  3:53                         ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-22 17:14                           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-22 17:49                             ` Francois Romieu
2005-10-22 16:51                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 18:18               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 18:50                 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 18:54                   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 19:13                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 19:23                       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 22:20                         ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-21 19:22                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 19:39                       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 20:41                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 21:12                           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 21:24                             ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 21:41                               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21 22:14                                 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 22:43                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-22  9:26                                     ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-22 17:23                                       ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-22 10:42                                     ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-22 10:58                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-22 15:28                                         ` Sergey Panov
2005-10-22 17:19                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-22 17:38                                             ` Sergey Panov
2005-10-24 15:18                                               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-22 18:27                                             ` Alan Cox
2005-10-24 13:51                                             ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-24 15:41                                               ` Alan Cox
2005-10-24 15:14                                                 ` Luben Tuikov [this message]
2005-10-24 16:03                                                   ` Regala
2005-10-24 16:13                                                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-24 16:04                                                   ` Regala
2005-10-22 17:30                                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-22 18:19                                           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-22 17:49                                         ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-24 22:09                                           ` ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attachedPHYs) David Lang
2005-10-24 23:09                                             ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-22 11:12                                       ` David Lang
2005-10-22 17:39                                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-22 17:41                                         ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-22 17:51                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-22 18:21                                             ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-22 18:39                                             ` Sergey Panov
2005-10-22 13:27                                       ` ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) Stefan Richter
2005-10-22 16:09                                     ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 19:41                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-10-21 19:48                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 19:54                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-10-21 20:05                             ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 19:46                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-21 19:50                         ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21  9:06           ` [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-21 17:05             ` Andrew Patterson
2005-10-21 17:18               ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-21 18:57               ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21 17:32           ` Luben Tuikov
2005-10-21  1:50 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-10-21  2:16   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-21  3:25     ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-10-21 18:04   ` Luben Tuikov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-21 20:31 ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) Salyzyn, Mark

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