Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932269AbVI2RD6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:03:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932266AbVI2RD5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:03:57 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:49644 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932269AbVI2RDz (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:03:55 -0400 Message-ID: <433C1E77.3000708@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:03:51 -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: Luben Tuikov 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> <433C1D28.6080900@adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <433C1D28.6080900@adaptec.com> 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: 1151 Lines: 43 Luben Tuikov wrote: > 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? Are you: are you going to rewrite the SCSI core, or work to improve the existing one? Your choice, not mine. Your time, not mine. 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/