From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] convert libsas to the libata new eh Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:16:51 -0600 Message-ID: <1295903811.15425.16.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <1295797260.3007.118.camel@mulgrave.site> <4D3DEB5B.9080803@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55849 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751505Ab1AXVQ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:16:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D3DEB5B.9080803@garzik.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-scsi , linux-ide , Brian King , Robert Jennings On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:12 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > About to dive into this. You're welcome. > Thanks for tackling the new-EH conversion, > libsas is the last straggler in this regard. No it's not ... there's still ipr (and any other external consumer). In it's current form, the new eh simply wasn't usable externally. As I said for ipr in the intro blurb, I can't see a way to convert it without making it attach fully to libsas, although an alternative might be to get the raid transport class to proxy. > As you noted, "old-EH" is > now a synonym for "SAS EH code path". Say more "external EH code path". James