Re: libata maintainership change

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri May 03 2013 - 22:41:21 EST


On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 16:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Time for new open source pastures outside the kernel, for me. SATA is
> slowly getting unexciting to the world. Which, really, just means the
> brand new technology has reached a usable plateau. :) And maybe in a
> few years, with directly attached PCI-NextGenSuperFastExpress storage,
> ATA and SCSI will be distant memories.

Hm, I keep getting asked when SCSI will die in various fora. To be
honest, I expect, with the newer protocols and architecture models, that
it may actually outlive me.

> Until such time as block-based storage disappears from this earth, the
> brave Sir Tejun, basically the libata co-author at this point, has
> agreed to be a target for slings and arrows known as libata patches.
>
> All the best,

Thanks for looking after libata thus far. All the best in whatever you
choose next and best wishes to the new maintainer.

James


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