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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: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:54:08 -0400
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To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>, Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, 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 <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>

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.

IOW, what Luben wants is:

	if (Luben)
		do this
	else
		do current stuff

If this is the case, why bother touching drivers/scsi/* at all?

Regards,

	Jeff