From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libsas and pci driver
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 07:10:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431439826.2214.15.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FF9EFDB6B8B51C49B6C1EFD8F01AB4DEA69601@lhreml504-mbs>
On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 13:56 +0000, John Garry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking to design an upstreamable driver for a custom SAS host
> controller and I have a question on libsas: the documentation for
> libsas states that the LLDD is a pci device driver - is this
> necessary? Our HBA is connected on the system bus, so would require a
> platform driver.
A quick look through the sources would tell you the answer to this:
"no" (except there's one printk which might need fixing in
sas_discover.c). I think the docs date back to before the pcidev->dev
conversion was done.
James
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