Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3 [LWN.net]

From:		Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org>
To:		James Bottomley <James.Bottomley-AT-suse.de>
Subject:		Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI fixes for 2.6.32-rc3
Date:		Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:54:15 -0700 (PDT)
Cc:		Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi-AT-vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>
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On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I'm taking it (and the parisc one I was also unhappy with)

Actually, looking at it again, I'm wavering.

That BFA driver isn't a "driver". It's a huge subsystem of it's own. It's 
almost 50 _thousand_ lines of code for just a single "driver", and for 
rare hardware at that.

Quite frankly, the "bang per line" is almost zero. 

What the ^&@* is wrong with "enterprise SCSI" people? The amount of crazy 
is overwhelming.

So I've pulled it, but I'm still considering just unpulling it. That 
driver is _not_ "just a driver".  It's something more. Something dank and 
smelly, that has grown in dark and forbidding places.

The whole crazy "high end SCSI" industry needs a f*cking exorcism.

Even if I don't unpull, I don't _ever_ want to see a driver like this 
outside the merge window. And dammit, James, you should have realized 
that.

			Linus

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