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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Promise 'stex' driver
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 17:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The driver is not for scsi hardware.  Please implement it as block
> driver.

Actually, I'm afraid it is ... look at the mailbox path ... it's one of
these increasingly prevalent raid HBAs that speaks SCSI at the firmware
level.  Most commands are direct passthroughs, only INQUIRY and
MODE_SENSE are actually emulated in the driver.

James