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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into
 the kernel
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:56:48 -0400
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To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>, Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>, Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 09/29/05 11:17, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> 
>>Then submit your driver as a (separate) block device in parallel to the
>>existing SCSI subsystem. People will use it for/with other parts if it
> 
> 
> SAS is ultimately SCSI.  I'll just have to write my own SCSI core.
> _We_ together can do this in parallel to the old SCSI Core.

You should have stated this plainly, from the start.

If you want to do your own SCSI layer, you need to do it at the block 
layer rather than poking around drivers/scsi/

	Jeff