Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932352AbVJCQ2V (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:28:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751163AbVJCQ2V (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:28:21 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:41116 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbVJCQ2U (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:28:20 -0400 Message-ID: <43415C1C.70202@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:28:12 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luben Tuikov CC: James Bottomley , Andre Hedrick , "David S. Miller" , willy@w.ods.org, Patrick Mansfield , ltuikov@yahoo.com, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel References: <433D8542.1010601@adaptec.com> <1128113158.12267.29.camel@mulgrave> <433DB6BE.4020706@adaptec.com> <433DDA8F.6050203@pobox.com> <43414DDE.4050804@adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <43414DDE.4050804@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: 1044 Lines: 32 Luben Tuikov wrote: > As opposed to those vendors saying: We _really_ need 64 bit LUNS > and it would be really nice to get rid of HCIL, etc, etc. Everybody agrees with this 100% Note that James submitted a sdev_printk() patch in the past few days, which assists in removing HCIL from the SCSI core. > IMO, 64 bit LUNs and no HCIL is more important than "transport > attributes" and should've _preceded_ them. Agreed. But that's a lot of work, and I doubt people want to delay SAS further to wait for complete HCIL elimination. > The fact that you're trying to umbrella them together, doesn't > make it _technologically_ correct. It's muddled together, yes. That doesn't make it any less correct. It's just not a clean, immediate separation. Its a separation that takes time. 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/