On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:09 -0800, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:10 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > >> > >> TBH, I still wouldn't implement it the way LSI maintainers did. > >> I'm happy they are the maintainers and it's their call. > > > > They are doing things which effect the entire system, not just > > their driver. So this doesn't fall under "maintainer's rights" > > Agreed. This case is about a debug option which is normally disabled. > So most people will never see this. > > The thread was more about how to make the failure visible in a > sane way WITHOUT the debug flag enabled. Then when the > debug flag is enabled, panic the machine as well. > > > If they fail locally, that's fine and perfectly expected, but to take > > the whole machine out is another matter altogether. > > Agreed. Me too, but I rejected half of the LSI update because of other problems. Since this is isolated to actual firmware debugging, which no normal user will see, I let it go after a bit of arguing. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
