Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver [LWN.net]

From:		Christoph Hellwig <hch-AT-infradead.org>
To:		Ben Collins <bcollins-AT-ubuntu.com>
Subject:		Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver
Date:		Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:43:19 -0700
Message-ID:		<20130826204319.GB26624@infradead.org>
Cc:		"Maloy, Joe" <Joe.Maloy-AT-lsi.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch-AT-infradead.org>, "Saxena, Sumit" <Sumit.Saxena-AT-lsi.com>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen-AT-oracle.com>, DL-MegaRAID Linux <megaraidlinux-AT-lsi.com>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi-AT-vger.kernel.org>, "aradford-AT-gmail.com" <aradford-AT-gmail.com>, "Maly, JoLyn" <JoLyn.Maly-AT-lsi.com>
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 04:26:30PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> Historically, waiting on commercial upstream to deliver what the community has already done is
wasted time. Likewise, historically, allowing patches that partially implement things (in this
respect, support one generation of card for megaraid_sas) leads to further support from the
community, in a much faster timefram

*nod*  Also historically ignoring hardware vendor mangement chains has
always lead to better drivers.  Not saying that some vendors don't have
competent engineer (many do, mand don't), but as soon as management gets
involved in decisions about drivers all hope is lost.

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Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver

Posted Aug 29, 2013 12:22 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

This mirrors my own experience as well.