From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:28:12 -0400 Message-ID: <43415C1C.70202@pobox.com> References: <433D8542.1010601@adaptec.com> <1128113158.12267.29.camel@mulgrave> <433DB6BE.4020706@adaptec.com> <433DDA8F.6050203@pobox.com> <43414DDE.4050804@adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:41116 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbVJCQ2U (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:28:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <43414DDE.4050804@adaptec.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Luben Tuikov Cc: James Bottomley , Andre Hedrick , "David S. Miller" , willy@w.ods.org, Patrick Mansfield , ltuikov@yahoo.com, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , SCSI Mailing List Luben Tuikov wrote: > As opposed to those vendors saying: We _really_ need 64 bit LUNS > and it would be really nice to get rid of HCIL, etc, etc. Everybody agrees with this 100% Note that James submitted a sdev_printk() patch in the past few days, which assists in removing HCIL from the SCSI core. > IMO, 64 bit LUNs and no HCIL is more important than "transport > attributes" and should've _preceded_ them. Agreed. But that's a lot of work, and I doubt people want to delay SAS further to wait for complete HCIL elimination. > The fact that you're trying to umbrella them together, doesn't > make it _technologically_ correct. It's muddled together, yes. That doesn't make it any less correct. It's just not a clean, immediate separation. Its a separation that takes time. Jeff