[Gllug] Ted T'so's Talk

[john.hearns at framestore.co.uk]

Simon Trimmer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 john.hearns at framestore.co.uk wrote:
> > Probably the comments he made about the SCSI system
> > needing a rewrite!
> 
> Again?!? :)
> 
> I quite like the current midlayer code... any idea what he was getting at,
> was it regarding hotplugging scsi devices or something else?
> 

It was part of a generla discussion on the use of software engineering
techniques to kernel development.
Ted is quite hot on that.
My recollection is hazy, bt he said something along the lines of
that less rigour was applied in the past
(thought he did comment that a great deal of progress was made in 
the first five years by a very few people!).
What he said was that the SCSI and block device layer are sorely
in need of a rewrite. 
Sorry if my memory isn't right here.

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