Re: [PATCH] Promise 'stex' driver

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > If I thought that it would ever be updated to use block tagging, I would
> > > not care at all. The motivation to add it from the Promise end would be
> > > zero, as it doesn't really bring any immediate improvements for them. So
> > > it would have to be done by someone else, which means me or you. I don't
> > > have the hardware to actually test it, so unless you do and would want
> > > to do it, chances are looking slim :-)
> > >
> > > It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, unfortunately. The block layer
> > > tagging _should_ be _the_ way to do it, and as such could be labelled a
> > > requirement. I know that's a bit harsh for the Promise folks, but
> > > unfortunately someone has to pay the price...
> > 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.
> >
> > They set up an alias for Linux maintainer stuff and have been acting 
> > like a maintainer that will stick around.  Why punish them for good 
> > behavior?
>
> I'm not trying to be rude to annyone, sorry if that is the impression
> you got. I'm just looking at things realistically - the fact is that
> moving to block layer tagging is not something that will benefit
> Promise, so it'd be fairly low on their agenda of things to do. I don't
> mean that in any rude sense, I can completely understand that position.
> Why would you want to change something that works?  Hence it's
> reasonable to assume that eg you or I would eventually have to convert
> it.

Did you read the patch that started this thread?  Promise has already 
demonstrated they are willing to add changes requested by the community, 
on top of an already-working driver.

	Jeff


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