From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] isci: core Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:47:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4D7FA620.10004@garzik.org> References: <20110310105347.6485.20780.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:63432 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757888Ab1CORrQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:47:16 -0400 Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so2680537qyk.19 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:47:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110310105347.6485.20780.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Williams Cc: james.bottomley@suse.de, dave.jiang@intel.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jacek.danecki@intel.com, ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, jeffrey.d.skirvin@intel.com, edmund.nadolski@intel.com On 03/10/2011 05:54 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > The full driver and history is available in git: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/isci.git master > > The libsas-pending branch contains proposed libsas fixes (pending > acceptance into scsi-misc): > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/isci.git libsas-pending > > The x86-pending branch contains a proposed api for mapping bios roms so > the driver can retrieve configuration parameters (pending acceptance > into -tip): > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/isci.git x86-pending > > -- > Dan for the isci driver team > > > [1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=129703780424729&w=2 > > --- > > Dan Williams (10): > isci/core: controller > isci/core: phy > isci/core: port > isci/core: remote device > isci/core: remote node context > isci/core: stp > isci/core: request (general, ssp and smp) > isci/core: unsolicited frame handling and registers > isci/core: base state machine and memory descriptors > isci/core: common definitions and utility functions Let's get this driver into staging for 2.6.39, if it isn't going to hit the merge window for 2.6.39. It would lame for such [presumably] high volume hardware to be in neither the main kernel, nor staging, at 2.6.39 release time. Jeff