Updated SATA support patches for Intel ICH & Promise cards

[Joe Rhett]

Just so you know, you're singing to the choir here.  I think everyone
realizes that its going to take coordination.   But Soren didn't say
"whoah, let's try this a different way" he went directly to "you're wasting
my time" without even a basic attempt to consolidate the efforts.

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:15:15PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > It sounds very much like you're putting your ego far, far in front
> > of functional code.
> 
> I think you should go back and read the history of the work that
> Soren has done before you criticize him.  I am not at all surprised
> that he has a large number of patches in the queue due to the amount
> of work that he puts in on ATA (mostly unheralded).
> 
> There is certainly plenty of work to go around in this area, but
> no doubt needs careful coordination due to the complexity of the
> work involved -- it has seemed, in the past, that seemingly-trivial
> changes break old, brain-damaged, ATA hardware.
> 
> Please, folks, let's try to work together on these really hard
> problems, and respect that fact that coordinating lots of changes
> are always going to require extra work -- but it will get FreeBSD
> a lot further along towards its goals in the long run.
> 
> mcl

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