From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] isci: sas controller driver for 3.0 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:38:08 -0600 Message-ID: <20110704143808.GA389@parisc-linux.org> References: <1309563349.19567.26.camel@dwillia2-linux> <20110704134529.GA8917@lst.de> <4E11C908.8020706@interlog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:41488 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753459Ab1GDOiL (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:38:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E11C908.8020706@interlog.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Gilbert Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Dan Williams , James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , Dave Jiang , Jeff Skirvin , Ed Ciechanowski , Ed Nadolski , David Milburn , Jeff Garzik , Jacek Danecki , hare@suse.de 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."