From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753925AbYIZPvd (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752728AbYIZPvY (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:51:24 -0400 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:50065 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752642AbYIZPvX (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:51:23 -0400 Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/6] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission (2ndtry) From: James Bottomley To: Jing Huang Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Ramkumar Vadivelu , "Srikanth Rayas (CW)" , Vinodh Ravindran In-Reply-To: <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E01F280A3@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> References: <200809260106.m8Q160kj028501@swe37.brocade.com> <20080926025514.GD9480@kroah.com> <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E01F28079@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> <1222408937.3265.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E01F280A3@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:50:49 -0700 Message-Id: <1222444249.3971.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 23:30 -0700, Jing Huang wrote: > It is encouraging to know that we can discuss and add new feature into > existing fc transport. I guess this is opensource all about. I didn't > have linux opensource experience before, so I was not quite sure how > easy to request new features in fc transport such as mechanism to create > multiple subdirectories for different level of statistics info in > addition to the snia fc statitistics we already have, and other features > such as CT/SCSI passthru and asynchronous event notification etc. Well, this is open source ... you don't get to request new features; you get to implement them, so if you need something that SCSI or the FC transport doesn't provide, you just add it (rather than coding either a fix or an enhancement for your driver alone). However, you're quite lucky. So far, as James Smart said, I haven't seen you ask for any features that we don't either provide or are in process of agreeing the implementation of. James