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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_transport_sas: remove local_attached flag
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:47:17 +0100
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:01:36AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 10:30 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > You can of course do the reset and stats using the normal smp code from
> > libsas for fusion aswell.  I just added the flag as a quick hack because
> > I was waiting for the libsas merge to implement this instead of adding
> > a mptsas-specific implementation.
> 
> Well ... we need an SMP input for that, which mptsas doesn't provide.
> If it did, we could move SMP execution out of libsas into the transport
> class proper and use it for the non-local expander stuff.

I had something like that for the experimental SG_IO SMP passthrough
patch.  I'll see if I can do something useful once I get some time
allocated for it.