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

[Jeff Garzik]

Luben Tuikov wrote:
> As opposed to those vendors saying: We _really_ need 64 bit LUNS
> and it would be really nice to get rid of HCIL, etc, etc.

Everybody agrees with this 100%

Note that James submitted a sdev_printk() patch in the past few days, 
which assists in removing HCIL from the SCSI core.


> IMO, 64 bit LUNs and no HCIL is more important than "transport
> attributes" and should've _preceded_ them.

Agreed.  But that's a lot of work, and I doubt people want to delay SAS 
further to wait for complete HCIL elimination.


> The fact that you're trying to umbrella them together, doesn't
> make it _technologically_ correct.

It's muddled together, yes.  That doesn't make it any less correct. 
It's just not a clean, immediate separation.  Its a separation that 
takes time.

	Jeff


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