Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030510AbVI3Xyi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:54:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030509AbVI3Xyi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:54:38 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:51592 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030506AbVI3Xyh (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:54:37 -0400 Message-ID: <433DD020.8000906@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:54:08 -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: Greg Freemyer CC: Kyle Moffett , Luben Tuikov , Andre Hedrick , "David S. Miller" , willy@w.ods.org, patmans@us.ibm.com, ltuikov@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel References: <433D8542.1010601@adaptec.com> <433D8D1F.1030005@adaptec.com> <0F03AA4B-D2D1-4C57-B81B-FC95CB863A98@mac.com> <87f94c370509301510nba59ac2m59f507f70de6e46b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87f94c370509301510nba59ac2m59f507f70de6e46b@mail.gmail.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: 716 Lines: 26 Greg Freemyer wrote: > Luben has more than once called for adding a small number of > additional calls to the existing SCSI core. These calls would > implement the new (reduced) functionallity. The old calls would > continue to support the full SPI functionallity. No existing LLDD > would need modification. IOW, what Luben wants is: if (Luben) do this else do current stuff If this is the case, why bother touching drivers/scsi/* at all? Regards, 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/