From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:09:25 -0500 Message-ID: <43587805.7060306@cs.wisc.edu> References: <91888D455306F94EBD4D168954A9457C048F0E34@nacos172.co.lsil.com> <20051020160155.GA14296@lst.de> <4357CB03.4020400@adaptec.com> <20051020170330.GA16458@lst.de> <4357F7DE.7050004@adaptec.com> <1129852879.30258.137.camel@bluto.andrew> <43583A53.2090904@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:8898 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964890AbVJUHKF (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:10:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <43583A53.2090904@pobox.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: andrew.patterson@hp.com, Luben Tuikov , Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Which is best? I don't have a good answer. Largely depends on the > situation, particularly queueing needs. Networking and storage are > rapidly converging into "messaging", so the situation is highly fluid in > any case. Coming from a networking background, I sorta lean towards the > solution noone has attempted yet: netlink. Dimitry and Alex did netlink for scsi_tranport_iscsi.c in scsi-misc. Which reminds me of some of the problems they discovered. See here http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=111273099708516&w=2