RE: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx intothe kernel

James.Smart_at_Emulex.Com
Date: 09/30/05

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    Date:	Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:36:15 -0400
To: <arjan@infradead.org>, <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>

    > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 13:07 -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
    > > At the SAS BOF, I indicated that it would not be much trouble to
    > > translate the CSMI handler in the aacraid driver to a similar sysfs
    > > arrangement. If such info can be mined from a firmware
    > based RAID card,
    > > every driver should be able to do so. The spec writers
    > really need to
    > > consider rewriting SDI for sysfs (if they have not already) and move
    > > away from an ABI.
    >
    > that makes me wonder... why and how does T10 control linux abi's ??

    Agreed. The most they should be doing is defining a library interface, and
    letting the library hide the system specifics (like t11 and hbaapi, who
    still got parts wrong). It also changes the argument from being a "linux abi"
    to being "a defacto application/library abi".

    -- james s
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