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Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 06:41:45 -0400
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To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
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On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 08:37:14PM +1000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> configuring the SAS domain. Expanders are SAS devices but
> not SCSI devices (i.e. they are neither initiators nor
> targets ***). It seems obvious that the management of a SAS
> domain should be done from the user space. Only those
> expanders and devices directly attached to a SAS Host Bus
> Adapter should automatically be visible.

Is there any reason that the SAS domain should in itself be a character
device file. I've always thought of it as a network and anticipated
a network layer interface for such things. That might just be my background
however.