Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs

Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-21T17:18:28Z

> >
> > but why didn't CSMI specify the library interface then? If it did that,
> > then none of the "ioctls are deprecated for 3 years now" would have come
> > as a surprise. Or rather, it maybe would have, but it wouldn't have
> > mattered to the management app.
> >
>
> I asked one of the authors, Steve Fairchild, about this. He said that
> they had had a bad experience with HBAAPI, the FC library.

> They had a
> lot of problems with vendors keeping the library up to date

that's not too hard (and up to date is relative)

> , multiple
> vendors shipping multiple incompatible versions, etc.

which sounds like they didn't get the spec right.. if the spec was good
that couldn't happen at all...