Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932725AbVINK4B (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:56:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932724AbVINK4B (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:56:01 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:50604 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932717AbVINK4A (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:56:00 -0400 Message-ID: <43280123.1020700@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:53:23 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergey Panov CC: Matthew Wilcox , Luben Tuikov , Christoph Hellwig , Luben Tuikov , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 14/14] sas-class: SCSI Host glue References: <1126308949.4799.54.camel@mulgrave> <20050910041218.29183.qmail@web51612.mail.yahoo.com> <20050911093847.GA5429@infradead.org> <4325FA6F.3060102@adaptec.com> <20050913154014.GE32395@parisc-linux.org> <1126677387.26050.71.camel@sipan.sipan.org> In-Reply-To: <1126677387.26050.71.camel@sipan.sipan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1074 Lines: 27 Sergey Panov wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 09:40 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>As you know, stuff is being rearranged to move more of the SPI-specific >>code from both SCSI core and LLDDs into the SPI transport. I suspect >>domain discovery will always be triggered by the LLDD for SPI, but at >>least a driver doesn't have to have its own code to do that any more. > Only if it can be turned into a some sort of library LLDD may use if it > needs it. But it is only makes sense to move that code out of the LLDD > and into the transport module, if more then one LLDD can make use of it. ...and in this thread, SAS, more than one LLDD -should- be able to make use it of. ServerWorks/Broadcom SAS+SATA hardware, for which I will soon be writing a driver, has exactly the same needs as Adaptec SAS+SATA hardware. Jeff - 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/