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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:16:47 -0400
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Cc: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>, Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org

Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Just a suggestion if you want to bring /dev/sg into
> the picture for a SMP (and even a STP) passthrough.

Yep.  That's another possibility, that falls into the 'block driver' 
category [see list of categories in my 'ioctl' email], since it is 
translated into a 'special' block request, and then sent to a normal 
request_queue.

Jens Axboe's bsg[1] has also been mentioned in the context of SMP.

	Jeff


[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/96547/