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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:47:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] isci merge candidate
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> At a minimum It would require a more verbose interface to
> libsas/libata (or new libframe?) to allow us to deliver raw
> unsolicited frames into common protocol handlers.

 ...which is where SAS and SATA have been heading for a while, anyway.
 With chained SAS expander setup you have a network, if an annoying,
manually configured and routed one.  Over that network you deliver
frames of various types.

     Jeff
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