Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs)

Stefan Richter
2005-10-22T13:30:52Z

I wrote:
> 1. renovate the core (thereby break all command set drivers and
> all transport subsystems),
> 2. update ~2 command set drivers and ~2 transport subsystems
> 3. validate the renovated core,
> 4. fix the conceptual errors of the renovated core (as well as
> first few discovered bugs in the implementation),
> 5. update all other command set drivers,
> 6. update all transport subsystems where resources to do so are
> available,

Step 6 probably involves the creation of a SPI transport layer. It
implements former SPI related functionality of the core and may receive
former code of the core. BTW, it may be a good idea to really defer this
to step 6 instead of doing so in step 2.
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Stefan Richter
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