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From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] libata: Support SATA attached via SAS
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:35:29 -0500
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Jeff,

Here are the remaining 2 patches to my patchset to allow SAS HBAs to
use libata to control attached SATA devices. The last two issues you brought
up have been addressed as follows:


1. Per device max command length checking
   - This has been removed.

2. Add ata_host_flags
   - You thought there might be a need to carry some cross port state.
     To resolve this I added a new API: ata_host_set_init. Callers
     of ata_sas_port_alloc must now pass their host_set pointer as the
     first argument. This removes the need for the patch you objected to
     and allows for a cross port state if needed.



-- 
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center