Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932272AbVJCPIo (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:08:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751048AbVJCPIo (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:08:44 -0400 Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:25044 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751037AbVJCPIn (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:08:43 -0400 Message-ID: <43414975.5090708@adaptec.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:08:37 -0400 From: Luben Tuikov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Willy Tarreau CC: Jeff Garzik , Greg Freemyer , Kyle Moffett , Andre Hedrick , "David S. Miller" , 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> <20051001045812.GF18716@alpha.home.local> In-Reply-To: <20051001045812.GF18716@alpha.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Oct 2005 15:08:37.0928 (UTC) FILETIME=[54F36280:01C5C82C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 33 On 10/01/05 00:58, Willy Tarreau wrote: > 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. Yes, it has been moved already there. http://linux.adaptec.com/sas/ 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/