Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into the kernel

[Willy Tarreau]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:54:08PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> >Luben has more than once called for adding a small number of
> >additional calls to the existing SCSI core.  These calls would
> >implement the new (reduced) functionallity.  The old calls would
> >continue to support the full SPI functionallity.  No existing  LLDD
> >would need modification.
> 
> IOW, what Luben wants is:
> 
> 	if (Luben)
> 		do this
> 	else
> 		do current stuff
> 
> If this is the case, why bother touching drivers/scsi/* at all?

that's the reason why I proposed that this moved to drivers/sas/* or
somewhere else so that there is no maintaining conflict.

Regards,
Willy

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