As my textual description has not been read, here comes a acsii art
of the proposal for a driver structure:
User programs
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
| |
| Kernel driver interface |
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------
| |
-------------------------------- ------------------------------
| | | |
| One or more SCSI | | One or more simple |
| target drivers | | Block based drivers |
| e.g. sd.c | | e.g. dsata.c |
| | | |
| | | |
-------------------------------- ------------------------------
| |
| |------------------ Locked when
| | SCSI glue
---------------------------------------------------------------- Interface is
| | | used for a
| | | specific
| SCSI glue layer | Block access glue layer | drive.
| | |
| Will check if target | |
| supports SCSI commands | |
| and lock Block access | |
| layer in this case. | |
| | |
----------------------------------------------------------------
| |
| Low level glue |
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------
| SCSI CDB/IF | SCSI CDB/IF | Block IF
-------------------------------- ------------------------------
| | | |
| | | |
| SCSI HBA driver | | ATA HBA driver |
| | | deals with simple ATA |
| Only supports | | interface and with |
| SCSI CDB interface | | ATA packet interface |
| | | |
| | | |
-------------------------------- ------------------------------
All HBA drivers include DMA setup callback functions to make the
target drivers completely independant from the HW.
Communication for all types of interfaces is HW address cookie
based and done via callback.
Above the glue layer, no knowledge about SCSI disconnect/reconnect
is needed.
Jörg
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