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

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2005-09-30 at 19:53 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> that makes me wonder... why and how does T10 control linux abi's ??

Indirectly the standards do define APIs at the very least. A good
example is taskfile. ACPI methods (which we don't yet use) allow get/set
mode, get features on the motherboard ATA controller if you don't know
how to drive it. The objects they work in are taskfiles. No taskfiles,
no ACPI.

Alan

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