From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 14/14] sas-class: SCSI Host glue Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:20:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1126383605.30449.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050910041218.29183.qmail@web51612.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:19160 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932246AbVIJT5X (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:57:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Rik van Riel Cc: Luben Tuikov , James Bottomley , Luben Tuikov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List On Sad, 2005-09-10 at 10:30 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > That's very nice for you - but lets face it, a SAS layer > that'll be unable to also deal with the El-Cheapo brand > controllers isn't going to be very useful. If future cheap SAS controllers are like cheap anything else controllers then it is better IMHO to deal with it once the problems are visible. We *know* from experience that hardware limits will be weirder than the anticipated. Alan