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<font size=3>At 06:47 AM 5/28/2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Sat, May 28, 2005 at
05:17:54AM -0700, Sukanta ganguly wrote:<br>
> That's a pretty bold statement. Linux grew up to be<br>
> popular via mass acceptance. Seems like that charter<br>
> has changed and a few have control over Linux and its<br>
> future. The "My way or the highway" philosophy has<br>
> gotten embedded in the Linux way of life.<br>
> Life is getting tough.<br><br>
You're totally missing the point. Linux is successfull exactly<br>
because it's lookinf for the right solution, not something the<br>
business people need short-term. </blockquote><br>
Hence why some of us contend that the end-game, i.e. the right solution,
is not necessarily the short-term implementation that is present today
that just evolves creating that legacy inertia that I wrote about
earlier. I think there is validity to having an implementation to
critique - accept, reject, modify. I think there is validity to
examining industry standards as the basis for new work /
implementation. If people are unwilling to discuss these standards
and only stay focused on their business people's short-term needs, then
some might contend as above that Linux is evolving to be much like the
dreaded Pacific NW company in the end. Not intending to offend
anyone but if there can be no debate without implementation on what is
the right solution, then people might as well just go off and implement
and propose their solution for incorporation into the Linux kernel.
It may be that OpenIB "wins" in the end or it may be that it
does not. Just having OpenIB subsume control of anything iWARP or
impose only DAPL for all RDMA infrastructure because it just happens to
be there today seems rather stifling. Just stating that some OpenIB
steering group is somehow empowered to decide this for Linux is also
rather strange. Open source is about being open and not under the
control of any one entity in the end. Perhaps that is no
longer the case.<br><br>
Mike</font></body>
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