On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 17:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:27 AM, James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > This represents the usual assortment of driver updates (bnx2i, zfcp, > > qla, lpfc, ipr ..) plus several libfc and fcoe updates and a partial bfa > > cleanup. > > Why do you say "bfa cleanup"? > > There's a _single_ commit that looks like this: > > 220 files changed, 34823 insertions(+), 43478 deletions(-) > > and which apparently rewrites the whole f*cking driver, with no > explanations, no nothing. Why should anything like this be considered > acceptable? > > I'm going to pull it this once, because let's face it, nobody sane > cares about that idiotic driver to begin with (and it does remove a > lot more lines than it adds). But really, if I see something like that > again, I will just tell you to go away and not send me crap like this > again. > > If it's that kind of crap, it should go into staging, or it shouldn't > have been merged into the kernel in the first place. > > Seriously. You need to start showing better taste. I realize that most > of SCSI is crazy specialty hardware that is used by just a few people, > but if you don't start pushing back on those vendors and make them do > proper changes in small pieces and with actual commentary, then _I_ am > going to push back at you. Hard. By simply not pulling crap. > > This is not the first time I've been disgusted with the SCSI tree. And > quite frankly, drivers like BFA are so totally irrelevant to anything, > that I will have absolutely no problems with just saying "screw it, if > they can't behave, they get removed from the kernel". > > And don't blame it on bad vendors that won't do a good job. If they > don't do a good job, then STOP TAKING THEIR CRAP. Make them understand > that they need to work with the process, not do some kind of random > "change everything, with no actual explanations". Blame me if you > can't grow the balls to stand up to them. Tell them that I simply > won't take it unless they clean up their act. > > Because I really won't. OK, so message received and understood. The warning has already been conveyed to the bfa maintainers (over a month ago). All of us appreciate the one time grace. I think this driver will finally start moving in the right direction. 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
