[Gllug] Ted T'so's Talk

[Simon Trimmer]

ah, I can understand why the block layer needs a rewrite (I'm hitting the
limitations of IO size)

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001 john.hearns at framestore.co.uk wrote:

> 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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