On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:06 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:James Bottomley wrote:On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 17:09 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:James, things cannot get bottlenecked like this. You have had MONTHS to say something like this. The code was ready BEFORE the merge window.James Bottomley wrote:I haven't been ignoring it ... it just needs quite a bit of work; theThis should be the final SCSI updates; it's mainly just a few accessorI guess I have the go-ahead to merge the end-CDROM-polling async notification work you've been repeatedly ignoring?
completion updates and two driver merges (sym2 and qla2xxx) we also
secured DaveM's agreement to remove fcal/fc4, which explains the high
removal line count.
The patch is available here:
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git
best way to accelerate it seems to be simply to do it (add the
supported/trigger event bitmasks and expand the infrastructure). I just
haven't had the time within the merge window.
The patch in question is an interface to user space. The problem with
those is that you can't put them in and refine them because the user
visible interface changes when you do that.
I really think you have the knowledge to be SCSI maintainer, but not the time.
The pot is calling the kettle black here, since libata was supposed to
have moved out of SCSI about three years ago by helping us move the
shared elements up to block. As far as I can tell, the only progress
we've made in this area is me adding the odd API shift.