Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932260AbVI2Q6l (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:58:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932259AbVI2Q6l (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:58:41 -0400 Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:14257 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932252AbVI2Q6j (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:58:39 -0400 Message-ID: <433C1D28.6080900@adaptec.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:58:16 -0400 From: Luben Tuikov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Bernd Petrovitsch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List , Andre Hedrick , Patrick Mansfield , Luben Tuikov , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel References: <433B0374.4090100@adaptec.com> <20050928223542.GA12559@alpha.home.local> <433BFB1F.2020808@adaptec.com> <1128007032.11443.77.camel@tara.firmix.at> <433C174D.4050302@adaptec.com> <433C1CD0.9080906@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <433C1CD0.9080906@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Sep 2005 16:58:25.0813 (UTC) FILETIME=[01FBDC50:01C5C517] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 961 Lines: 31 On 09/29/05 12:56, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Luben Tuikov wrote: > >>On 09/29/05 11:17, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: >> >> >>>Then submit your driver as a (separate) block device in parallel to the >>>existing SCSI subsystem. People will use it for/with other parts if it >> >> >>SAS is ultimately SCSI. I'll just have to write my own SCSI core. >>_We_ together can do this in parallel to the old SCSI Core. > > > You should have stated this plainly, from the start. > > If you want to do your own SCSI layer, you need to do it at the block > layer rather than poking around drivers/scsi/ So now you are saying that I should _not_ poke at drivers/scsi? (as I haven't done) Are you going to make up your mind? Luben - 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/