Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750733AbVJAFEq (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 01:04:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750734AbVJAFEq (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 01:04:46 -0400 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:49926 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750733AbVJAFEp (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Oct 2005 01:04:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 06:58:13 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Greg Freemyer , 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 Message-ID: <20051001045812.GF18716@alpha.home.local> References: <433D8542.1010601@adaptec.com> <433D8D1F.1030005@adaptec.com> <0F03AA4B-D2D1-4C57-B81B-FC95CB863A98@mac.com> <87f94c370509301510nba59ac2m59f507f70de6e46b@mail.gmail.com> <433DD020.8000906@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433DD020.8000906@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 28 On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:54:08PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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? that's the reason why I proposed that this moved to drivers/sas/* or somewhere else so that there is no maintaining conflict. Regards, Willy - 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/