From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Jeff Skirvin <jeffrey.d.skirvin@intel.com>,
Ed Ciechanowski <ed.ciechanowski@intel.com>,
Ed Nadolski <edmund.nadolski@intel.com>,
David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Jacek Danecki <jacek.danecki@intel.com>,
hare@suse.de
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] isci: sas controller driver for 3.0
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:38:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110704143808.GA389@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E11C908.8020706@interlog.com>
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 04:07:04PM +0200, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> On 11-07-04 03:45 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 04:35:48PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> James, please pull from:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/isci.git master
>>>
>>> ...to receive the isci driver that supports the integrated 6Gb/s SAS
>>> capabilities of the upcoming Intel(R) C600 series chipset family. This
>>> part is targeted at standard servers / workstations and provides
>>> up to 8-ports (2x4-port controllers) of SAS beyond the traditional SATA
>>> ports (surfaced by the ahci driver).
>
> s/surfaced/serviced/
"surfaced" seems to be a popular term within Intel. I believe it comes
from Windows. It means "the ahci driver is responsible for creating
the device entries for the SATA ports".
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-01 23:35 [GIT PULL] isci: sas controller driver for 3.0 Dan Williams
2011-07-02 22:45 ` James Bottomley
2011-07-03 2:43 ` Dan Williams
2011-07-03 5:16 ` James Bottomley
2011-07-03 5:46 ` Dan Williams
2011-07-03 11:37 ` Dan Williams
2011-07-03 19:14 ` James Bottomley
2011-07-04 13:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-04 14:07 ` Douglas Gilbert
2011-07-04 14:38 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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