Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932240AbVJCOFm (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:05:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932238AbVJCOFm (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:05:42 -0400 Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:6078 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932237AbVJCOFl (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:05:41 -0400 Message-ID: <43413A89.60505@adaptec.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:04:57 -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: Greg Freemyer , Kyle Moffett , 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> <433DD020.8000906@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <433DD020.8000906@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Oct 2005 14:04:58.0220 (UTC) FILETIME=[703A32C0:01C5C823] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 27 On 09/30/05 19:54, 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? In order to have a new better, faster, slimmer SCSI Core. 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/