Arjan, You misspelled my email address: It is not "luben_tulkov@xxxxxxxxxxx", It is "luben_tuikov@xxxxxxxxxxxx". Thanks, Luben P.S. I've added a CC to the correct address and left the mistaken one in. On 09/10/05 09:08, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>No self respecting SAS chip would not do 64 bit DMA, or have an sg tablesize >>or any other limitation. > > > yet... there will be :) > >>Naturally, aic94xx has _no limitations_. :-) But hey, our hardware just >>kicks a*s! > > > if it has no such limits then it indeed does! > > > >>(Oh, I know, the solution you're paid to push into the kernel >>doesn't need those since it does all SAS in the firmware.) > > > I think you are way out of line here. James is very prudent in > separating his job at SteelEye and his maintainership. > > > >>Hmm, lets see: >>I posted today, a _complete_ solution, 1000 years ahead of this >>"embryonic SAS class" you speak of. > > > yet you post this without having had ANY discussion or earlier reviews > in the recent months. IN fact to the outside world it looks like you sat > on this code for a long time for competative reasons and just posted it > now that Christoph is getting his layer finished. > > > >>Furthermore, why do you want to use a downgrade solution? >> >>The answer is simple: >> After "emd", Dell (Hi Matt!) learned quickly that if they want something >>in SCSI Core, they have to hire the people who _make_the_decisions_ what >>goes in and stays out of SCSI Core, to write that something, irrespectively > > > well EMD's failure was 100% Adaptecs fault. Adaptec was warned EARLY ON > that a dmraid like solution was going to be needed. It was just that > Adaptec decided to ignore this advice (and focus only on 2.4 and ignore > 2.6 entirely) that caused Adaptec to waste all the time and money on it. > > > >>So as long as *you are on their payroll*, what are you discussing here > > > James is paid by SteelEye. Not by Dell or LSI. > > >>with me? *You have an agenda*! > > > so do you. > > >>I long for the days of the previous maintainer. > > > What previous maintainer? > > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
