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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Salyzyn, Mark" <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
Cc: "Tuikov, Luben" <Luben_Tuikov@adaptec.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric.Moore@lsil.com
Subject: Re: Serial Attached SCSI Driver Interface (SDI)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:01:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4198EF00.2010305@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60807403EABEB443939A5A7AA8A7458B5C0F3D@otce2k01.adaptec.com>

Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> CSMI is an ioctl mechanism. Have incorporated this interface into my
> working version of the driver. Duplication is already showing, witness
> Eric Moore's (rejected) submission.
> 
> The T10 document Luben refers to, is to start the groundwork and does
> not list any specific interface yet. March 2006 is the `public release
> data' ... Get your comments in now!


ug.

These ioctl mechanisms almost always (a) have design flaws [which cannot 
be corrected, since they are in a spec] and (b) duplicate other 
functionality of the Linux kernel.  The SNIA ioctl mess is a great 
example of this.

Without any additional info, my first reaction is that this is yet more 
stuff Linux doesn't need.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-15 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-15 17:48 Serial Attached SCSI Driver Interface (SDI) Salyzyn, Mark
2004-11-15 18:01 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-11-15 18:29   ` Luben Tuikov
2004-11-15 18:49     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-15 20:00       ` Luben Tuikov
2004-11-15 20:41         ` Jeff Garzik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-15 18:14 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-11-15 22:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-11-15 17:40 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-11-15 17:22 Luben Tuikov
2004-11-15 17:40 ` Jeff Garzik

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