> It seems that nobody (Linus included) is interested in SCSI on Linux.
It's not nearly that simple. Heiko's improved driver has the recently
discussed 'out of memory' problems, which in some ways make it less
reliable than the previous driver was (rather than known, reliable
failures, it now blows up randomly; paranoia scans the bus in a
similar fashion to cdrecord).
Doug Gilbert also has an improved driver, and is looking at
incorporating Heiko's improvements (dougg's drive is somewhat more
extensive in the changes it makes).
> Heiko and I have made a new version more then 9 moths ago an nobody
> was willing to incorporate this change.....
Possibly because there was no active maintainer at that time, and the
new maintainer (Jens) had no idea you'd made improvements. As for
Linus' interest/lack of interest, I can't comment; I don't talk to God
all that often :-)
I *can* say that I'm glad big changes didn't make it into the SG
driver without others having a chance to look at them and inspect them
closely first (although Heiko's changes are not really extensive,
Doug's are). The original SG driver is a disaster partially because
someone, working alone, decided to run off and replace an interface
that was already there with some thing 'better' and we've been putting
up with it ever since...
Now we have a number of active developers participating in SG,
improving the chances that good ideas will be improved upon and bad
ideas will be filtered.
The other reason I'm glad 2.2 did not see a new SG is that it would
have been kinda rushed. I'd like to see more extensive interface
changes than just improving the plumbing in SG, and it was getting
pretty late in 2.1 to be that extensive. Now we have a nice long time
of 2.3 to play with and make all sorts of mistakes before we have to
hit on the 'right' 'stable' nswer for 2.4/3.0.
Yeah, yeah, alot of talk from Mr. Buried-in-work, but I'm getting to
writing that interface proposal...
Monty
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