From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
James.Smart@Emulex.Com, jejb@steeleye.com, ltuikov@yahoo.com,
Eric.Moore@lsil.com, andrew.patterson@hp.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] minimal SAS transport class
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:54:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050819175459.GA16619@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43061C3C.2020303@adaptec.com>
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:51:56PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 08/19/05 10:06, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > SATA support for SAS host adapters. Especially when talking STP to a
> > bridge this is a little more complicated than the current libata model.
> > That doesn't mean I don't want to share code and mechanisms but it'll
> > need a little refactoring at least.
>
> I'm not understanding what you mean here.
>
> If the lower level is implemented correctly, libata would
> just pick up and "drive" the ATA device.
Yes. But to get that to work we'll need to fix some assumptions in
libata, define proper interfaces between the SAS LLDD, the SAS transport
class and libata. It's doable and desirable, but it'll need some work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-19 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-18 18:48 [PATCH] minimal SAS transport class James.Smart
2005-08-18 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-19 14:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-19 17:51 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-19 17:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-08-19 17:56 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-19 17:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-19 18:07 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-19 19:59 ` James Bottomley
2005-08-19 20:32 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-19 20:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-20 9:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-20 17:34 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-21 6:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-21 17:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-19 19:08 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-18 20:06 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-19 14:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-23 18:25 James.Smart
2005-08-23 16:16 James.Smart
2005-08-23 17:28 ` Stefan Richter
2005-08-24 0:02 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-24 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26 15:47 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-26 19:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-26 19:44 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-27 1:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-27 7:35 ` Stefan Richter
2005-08-28 22:27 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-29 5:16 ` Stefan Richter
2005-08-29 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-29 17:20 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-29 17:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-29 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-29 17:31 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-29 18:34 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-29 18:09 ` James Bottomley
2005-08-23 17:57 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-08-22 23:08 Moore, Eric Dean
2005-08-24 8:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-20 4:15 James.Smart
2005-08-20 4:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-20 17:23 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-21 17:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-21 16:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-21 18:23 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-22 4:55 ` Matt Domsch
2005-08-22 17:05 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-22 21:53 ` Mike Anderson
2005-08-23 23:55 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-24 17:12 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-08-24 20:05 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-24 20:42 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-08-24 21:48 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-23 11:10 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-08-23 6:27 ` Hannes Reinecke
2005-08-23 15:42 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-08-23 15:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-08-24 0:13 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-25 19:32 ` Stefan Richter
2005-08-25 20:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-26 16:43 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-26 17:22 ` James Bottomley
2005-08-26 18:16 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-26 18:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-26 19:37 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-27 1:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-27 7:11 ` Stefan Richter
2005-08-28 22:13 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-18 14:43 James.Smart
2005-08-18 14:02 James.Smart
2005-08-18 17:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-18 20:05 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-19 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-18 11:57 James.Smart
2005-08-15 13:55 Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-15 14:19 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-15 14:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-15 15:04 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-15 15:13 ` Luben Tuikov
2005-08-15 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-15 15:33 ` Luben Tuikov
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