From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1254844007.4383.85.camel@mulgrave.site> <1254862442.4383.183.camel@mulgrave.site> <1255012399.4187.24.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm taking it (and the parisc one I was also unhappy with) Actually, looking at it again, I'm wavering. That BFA driver isn't a "driver". It's a huge subsystem of it's own. It's almost 50 _thousand_ lines of code for just a single "driver", and for rare hardware at that. Quite frankly, the "bang per line" is almost zero. What the ^&@* is wrong with "enterprise SCSI" people? The amount of crazy is overwhelming. So I've pulled it, but I'm still considering just unpulling it. That driver is _not_ "just a driver". It's something more. Something dank and smelly, that has grown in dark and forbidding places. The whole crazy "high end SCSI" industry needs a f*cking exorcism. Even if I don't unpull, I don't _ever_ want to see a driver like this outside the merge window. And dammit, James, you should have realized that. Linus