From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: add enclosure management support
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:55:50 -0500
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To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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James Bottomley wrote:
> One of the things we really need to do is to get some type of generic
> enclosure support.  I note that ahci support three standard eclosure
> management protocols (SAF-TE, SES-2, SFF-8485 SGPIO) as well as the one
> proprietary one you've chosen to implement.  Is that because no-one in
> the field has actually connected AHCI up to anything supporting one of
> the standard protocols?

NVIDIA posted SGPIO support, FWIW...

	Jeff