From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luben Tuikov Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:19:30 -0400 Message-ID: <433DB9F2.6040300@adaptec.com> References: <433D8542.1010601@adaptec.com> <433D8D1F.1030005@adaptec.com> <0F03AA4B-D2D1-4C57-B81B-FC95CB863A98@mac.com> <87f94c370509301510nba59ac2m59f507f70de6e46b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:3037 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030473AbVI3WTr (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:19:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87f94c370509301510nba59ac2m59f507f70de6e46b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Greg Freemyer , Andre Hedrick , "David S. Miller" , jgarzik@pobox.com, willy@w.ods.org, patmans@us.ibm.com, ltuikov@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley On 09/30/05 18:10, Greg Freemyer wrote: > > Luben has more than once called for adding a small number of > additional calls to the existing SCSI core. These calls would > implement the new (reduced) functionallity. The old calls would > continue to support the full SPI functionallity. No existing LLDD > would need modification. > > Then, over time, more radical restructuring could be done that pulls > SPI out of SCSI core. > > I believe this proposal is what he was talking about, not the brand > new simplified SCSI core that has been discussed recently in this > thread. See? There _are_ smart people out there. Luben