Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:40:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | Martins Krikis <> | Subject | Re: [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.28-pre3 |
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--- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:
> We SHOULD be discouraging new people from > contributing to DEPRECATED kernel series.
But 2.4 wasn't quite that deprecated when version 0.0.6 of iswraid was announced on Nov 24, 2003. I don't know the exact 2.6 timeline but ChangeLog-2.6.0 at www.kernel.org seems to be dated Dec 17, 2003. Yes, perhaps we should have asked for consideration sooner...
> > Actually, that is not the reason. There is very little > > dependence on ataraid in iswraid. It would be quite easy > > to make iswraid a completely standalone driver. It has not > > been ported to 2.6 primarily because it would not be welcome > > not because user-space solution is superior?
Like you said, superior from a maintenance point of view. The users might choose a different measure for superiority. The coder doing the work may choose yet another way of deciding which way to proceed. For example, if time was all that mattered, I think, it would be faster for me to just make an iswraid port to 2.6 than to try to work with dm+dmraid which I know very little about, in order to get the same features supported. But, because I can't speak for my employer, let me agree with you here and say that yes, I stand corrected, it is quite possible that it has not been ported because a user space solution is superior.
> I'm sorry that I dare to not love iswraid... ;-)
You've made your reasons so clear that I don't really mind.
These opinions are solely mine and may not agree with those of my employer.
Martins Krikis
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