Re: [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.28-pre3

[Martins Krikis <mkrikis@yahoo.com>]

--- 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