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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow a transport to pre-initialize starget_data
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:40:10 -0400
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On 08/15/05 12:32, James Bottomley wrote:
>>What will SCSI Core do with the RAID members?  Why is SCSI Core
>>concerned with this information?  What kind of parameters will
>>it have to set, without the RAID device server knowing about it
>>(which is implemented on the chip if HW RAID)?
> 
> 
> Nothing except expose them ... that's the idea.  The parameters are set
> from user level after that.  This elimiates need for the pass through
> ioctl that all of these drivers have.

Ah, ok.  It is this ioctl thing.  Really it never crossed my mind.

Thanks,
	Luben