From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933687AbXGZNa1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757488AbXGZNaN (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:13 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47557 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754290AbXGZNaL (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:11 -0400 Message-ID: <46A8A1E1.3040707@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:09 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: Meelis Roos , linux-scsi , Linux Kernel list , "Darrick J. Wong" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove libsas PCI dependencies References: <46A867AB.7050007@garzik.org> <1185454007.3501.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1185454007.3501.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org James Bottomley wrote: > Realistically, even for parisc, I can't see anyone producing a non-PCI > SAS device (even though I'd like one). A non-PCI device embedded on an SoC or system bus is highly -likely-, IMO. SAS+SATA silicon (w/out firmware assist as with aic94xx) is the direction that Marvell and Broadcom have gone. I would say it's practically inevitable that someone will embed a SAS+SATA chip eventually. > This should become enum dma_data_direction if we're going to go the > generic route. Updated. Jeff