Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030516AbVJAACV (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:02:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030515AbVJAACU (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:02:20 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:2953 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030511AbVJAACT (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:02:19 -0400 Message-ID: <433DD206.1060802@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:02:14 -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: andrew.patterson@hp.com, "Salyzyn, Mark" , dougg@torque.net, Linus Torvalds , Luben Tuikov , SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel References: <547AF3BD0F3F0B4CBDC379BAC7E4189F01A9FA11@otce2k03.adaptec.com> <1128105594.10079.109.camel@bluto.andrew> <433D9035.6000504@adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <433D9035.6000504@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: 608 Lines: 18 Luben Tuikov wrote: > But you can write a user space library which uses sysfs or whatever > _that_ OS uses to represent an SDI spec-ed out picture. > > So a user space program would call (uniformly across all OSs) > a libsdi library which will use whatever OS dependent way there is > to get the information (be it sysfs or ioctl). Agreed completely :) 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/