linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 5/6] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission (2ndtry)

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Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:50:49 -0700
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Jing Huang <huangj@...cade.COM>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Ramkumar Vadivelu <rvadivel@...cade.COM>,
	"Srikanth Rayas (CW)" <srayas@...cade.COM>,
	Vinodh Ravindran <vravindr@...cade.COM>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/6] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission (2ndtry)

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 23:30 -0700, Jing Huang wrote:
> It is encouraging to know that we can discuss and add new feature into
> existing fc transport. I guess this is opensource all about. I didn't
> have linux opensource experience before, so I was not quite sure how
> easy to request new features in fc transport such as mechanism to create
> multiple subdirectories for different level of statistics info in
> addition to the snia fc statitistics we already have, and other features
> such as CT/SCSI passthru and asynchronous event notification etc.

Well, this is open source ... you don't get to request new features; you
get to implement them, so if you need something that SCSI or the FC
transport doesn't provide, you just add it (rather than coding either a
fix or an enhancement for your driver alone).

However, you're quite lucky.  So far, as James Smart said, I haven't
seen you ask for any features that we don't either provide or are in
process of agreeing the implementation of.

James


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