From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758241Ab0IGUOa (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:14:30 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:61773 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758220Ab0IGUO2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:14:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4C869D13.90401@vlnb.net> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:14:11 +0400 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100527 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" CC: James Bottomley , Dmitry Torokhov , Dirk Meister , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Chetan Loke , Chetan Loke , scst-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Christie , FUJITA Tomonori Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010... References: <4C76CA57.3050405@vlnb.net> <1282857806.32007.175.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <4C79484B.3090607@vlnb.net> <1283028468.32007.357.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <4C7C18CE.5020103@vlnb.net> <1283204792.32007.448.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <4C7FFD1A.8090509@vlnb.net> <1283459158.5598.143.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <20100905201802.GC18411@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1283723447.556.133.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <20100905234134.GA17212@core.coreip.homeip.net> <1283731194.556.147.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <1283769578.15944.1293.camel@mulgrave.site> <4C85617E.2080603@vlnb.net> <1283810135.556.238.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> In-Reply-To: <1283810135.556.238.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:STwRzR/4CE2fhOPNcSqWexH3GpJyTFkOseHF/SeqWX0 vPeEb8RbxBmlwC1+wREgfn3s3YMnrjHnXyWW9URWCCEyNfJKFy UbheVZrhOniALkoAvk3YL/V06UXnKrzN8n7ua07D9jqLLir0HM 1Ef3PnDdf5Mmxk9YRflH40putJiUmNVkKl9rb+qpbeigctZht4 oH0NHCkzImRgrNbSs/MnQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicholas A. Bellinger, on 09/07/2010 01:55 AM wrote: >> Frankly, in all the situation around Linux SCSI targets I for quite a >> long time feeling myself as a hero of a Kafka novel. Supposed to be >> goals are to have the best code doing its job the best, but on practice >> nobody cares about technical arguments and figuring out which subsystem >> is the best. Instead, everything lives it own incomprehensible life, >> where doesn't matter what you are doing, all already long ago decided >> behind your back and you will never be told why. All accurate statements >> not heard or, at best, called "handwaving", but dirty public opinion >> manipulations based on half- and less-than-half- truth have very warn >> welcome. This atmosphere is unhealthy, really. > > Sorry Vlad, but this is simply not the truth. You have had ample time > to comment on the hundreds of TCM/LIO patches posted to linux-scsi and > lkml over the last years, but you have chosen never to comment on a > *single* one then, or even on a single one now of the dozens that have > been posted in the last 3 weeks while this thread has been lumbering > forward.. Actually, http://scst.sourceforge.net/comparison.html is the result of a very careful and comprehensive review of your code, most likely, the best it has ever had. Until high level questions are answered (Dmitry perfectly summarized them), there's no point to go into low level details reviewing particular patches. Vlad