Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932256AbVIJT5Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:57:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932252AbVIJT5Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:57:24 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:19160 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932246AbVIJT5X (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:57:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 14/14] sas-class: SCSI Host glue From: Alan Cox To: Rik van Riel Cc: Luben Tuikov , James Bottomley , Luben Tuikov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <20050910041218.29183.qmail@web51612.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:20:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1126383605.30449.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 18 On Sad, 2005-09-10 at 10:30 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > That's very nice for you - but lets face it, a SAS layer > that'll be unable to also deal with the El-Cheapo brand > controllers isn't going to be very useful. If future cheap SAS controllers are like cheap anything else controllers then it is better IMHO to deal with it once the problems are visible. We *know* from experience that hardware limits will be weirder than the anticipated. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/