Dave, Was it really necessary to this far and rude? I heard the snow is falling and there is a fresh shipment of hash headed out to the slopes, don't be late. Not sure who to credit the following to: When TOE's were introduced to Linux, there was a violent rejection of this hardware because Linux is superior in the NetStack than any other possible NetStack every created. The point is there is a known history in Linux to reject things which steps on peoples' egos. Have a great ski trip. Cheers, Andre On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:22:53 -0400 > > > Both Luben and his predecessor, Justin Gibbs, were severely dissatisfied > > with the SCSI core. Often they have raised valid issues that need > > addressing, but their choice has been to work around or ignore existing > > code (and maintainers), rather than work with it, and fix it. > > I'm in violent agreement here. > > Justin was just as anti-social of an engineer as one could get. And, > when you put an ex-FreeBSD guy onto Linux driver maintainence, what in > the world could anyone expect. :-) > > For example, instead of accepting that the symbol "current" is a > reserved symbol when compiling under the Linux kernel, he decided that > "sticking a square peg into a round hole" was a better way to deal > with this, and thus he put an "#undef current" into the adaptec driver > instead of simply renaming a structure member from "current" to > something else. > > I don't know how else to define "control freak". > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - : 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
