Re: [PATCH] scsi_transport_sas: remove local_attached flag

Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-29T11:47:24Z

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:01:36AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:30 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > You can of course do the reset and stats using the normal smp code from
> > libsas for fusion aswell. I just added the flag as a quick hack because
> > I was waiting for the libsas merge to implement this instead of adding
> > a mptsas-specific implementation.
>
> Well ... we need an SMP input for that, which mptsas doesn't provide.
> If it did, we could move SMP execution out of libsas into the transport
> class proper and use it for the non-local expander stuff.

I had something like that for the experimental SG_IO SMP passthrough
patch. I'll see if I can do something useful once I get some time
allocated for it.