Chris, I would appreciate you toning down your rhetoric. Please keep it professional. What Sumit reported is correct. We are polling our Marketing and Product management organizations to see if we want to productize this type of support in our MR Linux drivers. We would not submit upstream changes that have not been successfully tested by our PT test org based on a GCA (general customer availability) or async release effort. Thanks, Joe Maloy -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 3:06 AM To: Saxena, Sumit Cc: Ben Collins; Martin K. Petersen; DL-MegaRAID Linux; linux-scsi; aradford@xxxxxxxxx; Maloy, Joe Subject: Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:51:07PM +0530, Saxena, Sumit wrote: > We are conferring with Marketing and Product Management on direction wrt Big endian support for megaraid_sas driver. Our goal is to gain clear direction within two weeks. Sorry guys, but this is just utter bullshit. There are obviously correct patches out that make an important class of controllers work with no downside at all given that code doesn't even change for little endian compiled driver binaries. I have to say I'm a little sad and disappointed we're even arguing this in any form and that patch haven't been merged long ago. -- 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
