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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What layer are "transport classes" in?
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:15:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193350500.3301.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710251713.56136.rob@landley.net>

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:13 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Looking at the scsi_transport_*.c files...  Are these part of the lower layer 
> or the midlayer?  I _think_ these exist primarily to expose information about 
> the lower layers through sysfs, but I'm very fuzzy on this...

They're part of the mid layer (the lower layer is simply all the
drivers).

> Should they be documented as part of the lower layer or the midlayer or are 
> they their own area...?

They should be documented on their own.  They're basically service
libraries and sysfs export helpers for drivers.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-25 22:13 What layer are "transport classes" in? Rob Landley
2007-10-25 22:15 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-10-26 14:43   ` Stefan Richter

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