From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] sas_ata: Make this a module separate from libsas Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:06:03 -0800 Message-ID: <45C5A1FB.1060205@us.ibm.com> References: <20070130091814.31530.23152.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com> <20070130091903.31530.90178.stgit@elm3a70.beaverton.ibm.com> <1170518592.3345.38.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Reply-To: "Darrick J. Wong" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:43296 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752242AbXBDJGJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Feb 2007 04:06:09 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e5.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l14966sg008197 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 04:06:06 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l14966P8065782 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 04:06:06 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l14966oN031643 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 04:06:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1170518592.3345.38.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, alexisb@us.ibm.com James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 01:19 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: >> Break out sas_ata as a free-standing module that provides a SATA >> Translation Layer (SATL) for libsas. This patch requires the libsas >> SATL registration patch; the changes to sas_ata itself are rather >> minor. > > Right at the moment, this doesn't work. The dependency of ATA_AVAILABLE > on SCSI_SAS_SATL forces libsas to require sas_ata if you select it as a > module (i.e. they're not truly independent). > > How about this solution to untangle them? ACK. --D