From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [RFC 0/12] mpt2sas - new device driver Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:06:20 -0800 Message-ID: <1226520380.3528.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081103083358.GA3337@lsil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:37565 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752843AbYKMAB6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:01:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081103083358.GA3337@lsil.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Moore Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 01:34 -0700, Eric Moore wrote: > * Here is first draft of mpt2sas for your review and comment. > This is new scsi lld device driver supporting the SAS 2.0 standard. > This driver source sits in the scsi-ml tree. > (We went with new device driver due to major changes in the driver-firmware transport interface) > > * Here is list of new 6gb host controllers: > > LSI SAS2004 - Spitfire > LSI SAS2008 - Falcon > LSI SAS2108 - Liberator > LSI SAS2116 - Meteor > > * Here is a summary of the patchs: > > [PATCH 1/12] mpt2sas_base.c - Common API layer interface to MPT (Message Passing Technology) firmware. > [PATCH 2/12] mpt2sas_config.c - Common API for accessing firmware configuration pages. > [PATCH 3/12] mptsas_ctl.[c,h] - Storage Management Module. > [PATCH 4/12] mpt2sas_scsih.c - SCSI Host Layer. > [PATCH 5/12] mpt2sas_transport.c - Common API for accessing the Kernel SAS Transport Layer. > [PATCH 6/12] mpt2sas_base.h - Header shared structs. > [PATCH 7/12] mpt2sas_debug.h - Header for debug logging. This patch apparently didn't make the list, could you resend? > [PATCH 8/12] mptsas/mpi/* - Common MPI (Message Passing Interface) Headers. > [PATCH 9/12] Kconfig: Kernel configuration file. > [PATCH 10/12] Makefile - Driver Makefile > [PATCH 11/12] Kconfig, scsi-ml - Adding mptsas. > [PATCH 12/12] linux/miscdevice.h - Adding suport for MPT2SAS_MINOR Thanks, James