From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: libsas and pci driver Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 07:10:26 -0700 Message-ID: <1431439826.2214.15.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:36253 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932920AbbELOKi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2015 10:10:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: John Garry Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" 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