From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Promise 'stex' driver Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:21:03 -0400 Message-ID: <44C3DA2F.1090107@garzik.org> References: <44BFF539.4000700@garzik.org> <1153439728.4754.19.camel@mulgrave> <44C01CD7.4030308@garzik.org> <20060721010724.GB24176@suse.de> <44C02D1E.4090206@garzik.org> <20060721013822.GA25504@suse.de> <44C037B3.4080707@garzik.org> <20060721023647.GA29220@suse.de> <44C0436E.306@garzik.org> <20060723194539.GB25789@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:64159 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751289AbWGWUVP (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:21:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060723194539.GB25789@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: hch , Jeff Garzik , Jens Axboe , James Bottomley , Ed Lin , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , linux-kernel , akpm , promise_linux hch wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:01:02PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> I think it's highly rude to presume that someone who has so-far been >> responsive, and responsible, will suddenly not be so. That is not the >> way to encourage vendors to join the Linux process. > > But it is like that in practice. I know more than enough examples where > there is no more incentive to fix things up once it's in, heck I'm guilty > of that myself. It has to do with beeing lazy and not wanting to change code > anymore once it has settled. I agree -- but in this case we have direct evidence to the contrary. I'll stay on their back, if nothing else... Jeff