On Thu, Jul 01 2010 at 8:28am -0400, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It is either/or choice. If the interface isn't fixed NOW, the existing > > > flawed zeroed-page-allocation interface gets into RHEL > > > > That's a false dichotomy. You might see an either apply this hack now > > or support the interface choice with RHEL, but upstream has the option > > to fix stuff correctly. RHEL has never needed my blessing to apply > > random crap to their kernel before ... why is this patch any different? > > We can't apply non-upstream patches (except few exceptions such as > dm-raid45). It makes sense, non-upstream patches have smaller test > coverage. > > > And the rest of this rubbish is based on that false premise. It might > > help you to take off your SCSI antipathy and see this as a system > > problem: it actually originates in block and spills out from there. > > Thus it requires a system solution. > > > > James > > Imagine this: I take a FPGA PCI board, I design a storage controller on it > and this controller will need 3 pages to process a discard request. Now I > say: I refuse to allocate these 3 pages in the driver because the driver > would look ugly --- instead, I demand that everyone in the Linux kernel > who creates a discard request must attach 3 pages to the request for my > driver. > > Do you think it is correct behavior? Would you accept such a driver? I > guess you wouldn't! But this is the same thing that you are doing with > SCSI. > > Now lets take it a bit further and I say "I may clean up the driver for my > controller one day, when I do it, I remove that 3-page requirement --- and > then, everyone who allocated those pages will have to change his code and > remove the allocations". > > And this is what you are intending to do with SCSI. Mikulas, Jens has already queued up a comprehensive fix (3 patches) that James and Tomo developed. Please stop the hostility.. it has no place. Others, I'd encourage you to not respond to this thread further ;) Regards, Mike -- 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
