Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751353AbVJVNax (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:30:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751351AbVJVNax (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:30:53 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:29412 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751346AbVJVNaw (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:30:52 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <435A3E56.8060704@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:27:50 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel CC: Jeff Garzik , Luben Tuikov , andrew.patterson@hp.com, Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) References: <91888D455306F94EBD4D168954A9457C048F0E34@nacos172.co.lsil.com> <20051020160155.GA14296@lst.de> <4357CB03.4020400@adaptec.com> <20051020170330.GA16458@lst.de> <4357F7DE.7050004@adaptec.com> <1129852879.30258.137.camel@bluto.andrew> <43583A53.2090904@pobox.com> <435929FD.4070304@adaptec.com> <43593100.5040708@pobox.com> <43593884.7000800@adaptec.com> <4359395B.9030402@pobox.com> <43593FE1.7020506@adaptec.com> <4359440E.2050702@pobox.com> <43595275.1000308@adaptec.com> <435959BE.5040101@pobox.com> <43595CA6.9010802@adaptec.com> <43596070.3090902@pobox.com> <43596859.3020801@adaptec.com> <43596F16.7000606@pobox.com> <435A1793.1050805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <435A1793.1050805@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: (-0.413) AWL,BAYES_20 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 24 I wrote: > 1. renovate the core (thereby break all command set drivers and > all transport subsystems), > 2. update ~2 command set drivers and ~2 transport subsystems > 3. validate the renovated core, > 4. fix the conceptual errors of the renovated core (as well as > first few discovered bugs in the implementation), > 5. update all other command set drivers, > 6. update all transport subsystems where resources to do so are > available, Step 6 probably involves the creation of a SPI transport layer. It implements former SPI related functionality of the core and may receive former code of the core. BTW, it may be a good idea to really defer this to step 6 instead of doing so in step 2. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=-= =-=- =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/