Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 07:15:52 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, jonathan@kc8onw.net, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: ATA APM and NCQ support in FreeBSD atacontrol Message-ID: <20080512141552.GA14963@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <48284C32.5060707@samsco.org> 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> <48284C32.5060707@samsco.org>
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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 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.
! Wow... I had no idea you were working on such! Ideally that'd be the
best implementation. Thanks a ton for working on it!
If you need someone to test patches (I figure they'll be for -CURRENT,
but our test boxes run RELENG_7), let me know and I'll be more than
happy to give them a shot.
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