From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Oct 2 11:31:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA7437B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2082F43E81 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 89621 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Oct 2002 18:31:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:31:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Announce: informal quirk maintainer In-Reply-To: <20021002153331.GA734@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-10-01 13:08, Nate Lawson wrote: > > I will be taking ownership of quirk maintenance to help clarify and > > expedite things. The goal is to interoperate with as much hardware > > as possible while keeping the table attributed and in > > well-maintained order. > > > > Here are a few guidelines: ... > > 3. Please follow the quirk submission guidelines to help things proceed > > quickly: > > http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/quirks.html > > 4. Please do not commit quirks directly. > > 5. GNATS maintainers should assign quirk-related PRs to njl@ > > I am unfamiliar with the notion of "quirks", but as long as you or > anyone else takes precautions to avoid creating a bottleneck, in case > you have to go away for extended periods of time, that's a fine thing. > This is all, IMHO, of course. Quirks are entries in CAM or the SCSI periph driver for devices which cannot handle certain (legal) commands. It the hardware returns an error, we can recover without a quirk. If the hardware hangs, a quirk is needed. The link above has more details on this if you're interested. In this case, before they were sitting untouched in PRs or developers would commit their own entries at will. Now if they're untouched you have someone to yell at and if developers commit away, someone will yell at them. ;-) -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message