[RFQ] New driver architecture questions

[Mukker, Atul]

Hello Kernel experts out there!

 

We (a division of LSI Corp.) are planning to initiate a new driver design for future generation of LSI RAID controllers. The new class of RAID controllers would be supported under various operating systems in addition to Linux.

As part of the revamping exercise, we would like to design the driver in such a fashion that much of the driver source code can be made common across drivers offered for various operating systems.

The obvious benefits being:

1.                   Reduction of feature disparity across various operating systems.

2.                   Increased customer satisfaction in terms of support consistency across all available operating systems.

3.                   More synergy between the driver team members and increased collaboration.

4.                   Decreased overheads in terms of maintenance, fixing issues across the board, defect and change requests tracking etc.

5.                   More channelized test engineering.

etc….

Our concern is, is such a design acceptable to Linux community, with our intention being keeping the model open source.

Insights, feedback would be highly appreciated! 

Best regards,
Atul Mukker
Staff Engineer,
LSI Corp.--
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