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

Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-21T09:06:37Z

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:01 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote:

> Yes, CSMI should have had more Linux input when it was developed. The
> no-new IOCTL policy certainly came as a surprise to the authors. Still,
> there doesn't seem to be any other usable cross-platform interface that
> is acceptable to the linux community (or at least to Christoph)'s corner
> of it). My personal preference is to hide this stuff in a library, so
> the kernel implementation is hidden. But even a library needs an
> underlying kernel implementation.

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.