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Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 17:35:18 -0700 From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org> To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com> Cc: Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Subject: Re: libata maintainership change On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 16:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Linux has really found its groove. > > When I first got involved in Linux, there was no PCI API (now called the > hotplug or device API), and patch submission was a moderately painful > process of throwing spaghetti at a wall: sending and resending, with > both Linus and maintainers having to manually resolve merge conflicts. > <shiver> > > It was a real fight to get any Linux hardware support at all. The vast > amount of hardware documentation was locked away or simply unavailable. > > Working on memory management or filesystems or scheduling was always the > Sexy Rock Star PhD work that attracted engineers. OTOH, I felt, device > drivers were ignored as boring, unsexy grunt work. Which, ok, maybe it > was. Each new device driver, though, spread Linux to more and greater > locales. Alan Cox and Don Becker did enormous heavy lifting back then. > Now Linux is where it is today, with most hardware vendors actively > seeking open source driver support (except NVIDIA, natch). The kernel > has come a long way. > > Time for new open source pastures outside the kernel, for me. SATA is > slowly getting unexciting to the world. Which, really, just means the > brand new technology has reached a usable plateau. :) And maybe in a > few years, with directly attached PCI-NextGenSuperFastExpress storage, > ATA and SCSI will be distant memories. > ;) > Until such time as block-based storage disappears from this earth, the > brave Sir Tejun, basically the libata co-author at this point, has > agreed to be a target for slings and arrows known as libata patches. > > All the best, > Thank you Jeff, and best of luck in all your new endeavors !! --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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