Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:54:58 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, stable@freebsd.org, jonathan@kc8onw.net Subject: Re: ATA APM and NCQ support in FreeBSD atacontrol Message-ID: <48284C32.5060707@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4827F91E.60102@paradise.net.nz> References: <29626.214.13.212.30.1210554531.squirrel@www.kc8onw.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080512141540.3891B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <53004.80.91.220.50.1210576570.squirrel@www.kc8onw.net> <20080512072316.GA3845@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <58131.80.91.220.50.1210577810.squirrel@www.kc8onw.net> <20080512074541.GA4667@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4827F91E.60102@paradise.net.nz>
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>
>> I am too, but PRs that are 2 years old which include patches for severe
>> bugs that affect reliability of RAID is (in my opinion) not acceptable.
>> I've been spanked over saying this before ("you don't understand how
>> open source works"), but necessity easily supercedes idealism.
>>
>> Linux's libata has evolved very quickly and very well, and has multiple
>> eyes familiar with the code (in the case the author takes vacation,
>> etc.). It has the upper hand here.
>>
>>
> Linux has more eyes period, which helps a lot. In addition Linux has
> more commercial sponsorship - having said that, I've no idea if libdata
> development has had any such sponsorship...
>
> However. I do agree that we (that is FreeBSD) need more folks brave
> enough to help Soren out with the (S)ATA layer - that means people like
> you or me deciding to get our hands dirty with this code...
>
I'm working on adding ATA/SATA support to CAM.
Scott
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